[ SECRET POST #6068 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6068 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[Pâquerette Down the Bunburrows]



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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can't disagree that Paypal made the internet and fandom worse.

But my impression is that the internet was built with taxpayer money and what used to be public infrastructure, and the government then sold it off to companies that are trying to extract a profit from every angle. Back in the day, overwhelmingly everything online was free. Hosting. Email. Chat. IRC. And overwhelmingly most of the backend programs that made stuff possible were, also. Even the flashy stuff from later on, in defiance of clumsy attempts to monetize - the best DVD decrypters and rippers and burners were just available to everyone.

Fandom has survived the buying-out and mass destruction of so many things we used to rely on. The people who stopped maintaining great free tools because they were threatened with jail, the constant threats of fines and prison for those brave souls running torrent trackers and shadow libraries, the corporate takeovers and mass-deletions of sites that caused migration after migration. They threw everything they could reach in the garbage, erased our accounts, and still people went elsewhere and found each other and rebuilt. Not once but so many times.

But every time something that people used to be able to put up online for free is blocked into "now that's a paid service, no upload without our paid plan," some of the people who were here, before, can't afford to share with the world. I share your loathing for online payment processors, but I think the gradual extinction of places where you're not being outright forced to pay rent for creating and contributing is worse.