• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m not always the best at connecting my ideas. You were right to dig the connection out of me, my bad.

    You’re right this shouldn’t be a surprise to creators. I just worry that while streamers increasingly become the biggest players in media, the market for physical media will dwindle. Almost like the streamers taking all the air out of the room. Maybe the library of congress could do something for this, idk

    • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      That’s fair, and I should probably give people a bit more grace. My apologies if I came off as belligerent.

      You’re right, this tendency is scary. As a person, I am also scared of the way almost all media has transformed in my lifetime. It’s not all bad though. As I mentioned, I’m a dev, as I know a lot of folks on Lemmy are. I’ve been fortunate enough to work in the accessibility space a bit and have conversations with people who would not have been able to enjoy media, full stop, without digitization. Paraplegics can read books, deaf people can enjoy more visual media as we develop alternatives for sound, etc. It’s easy to focus on the bad because we feel it so personally, but there is good too.

      That aside, I’m with you. Preservation is going to become such an important topic. I don’t think most of this is malicious. It’s side effects of capitalism and such, for sure, but some of this is just the digital equivalent of books getting lost to time because they just weren’t popular enough to preserve. That’s sad too and has happened countless times in history, but we usually don’t view it as malicious as much as just unfortunate. Technology is a bucking bronco we are all holding onto desperately and just trying our best as a society to adjust. You, me, and all the other folks passionate about art are going to have to organize and be the solution, whether that’s through art collectives, local government, or even those pesky pirating websites nobody should use. (😉)