Why? People don’t owe people anything with the content they publish for free. I regularly wipe social media or blogs and change aliases because I feel like that part of my life is over and/or I just feel like a fresh start.
If they didn’t feel like having an online identity anymore then they’ve got every right to delete[0] themselves.
I think the whole “expectation” that free content is persistent forever and someone is supposed to keep it reliably hosted and/or keep pumping stuff out is another fucked up byproduct of the modern internet, so much expectations from people who aren’t contributing anything financially or materially. It’s why YouTubers have mental breakdowns, bloggers snap and wipe their blogs, open source contributors close their projects, etc etc. Having a public identity has massive pressures.
[0] Effectiveness of that based on archives/crawlers/etc is a whole other discussion.
> It’s why YouTubers have mental breakdowns, bloggers snap and wipe their blogs
Which was why people called the police. They thought he was potentially going to kill himself. Because this is the sort of thing people do before committing suicide.
Also this stuff was all in his own name and built up over years. Not a short-term alias he'd used for a few months.
If they didn’t feel like having an online identity anymore then they’ve got every right to delete[0] themselves.
I think the whole “expectation” that free content is persistent forever and someone is supposed to keep it reliably hosted and/or keep pumping stuff out is another fucked up byproduct of the modern internet, so much expectations from people who aren’t contributing anything financially or materially. It’s why YouTubers have mental breakdowns, bloggers snap and wipe their blogs, open source contributors close their projects, etc etc. Having a public identity has massive pressures.
[0] Effectiveness of that based on archives/crawlers/etc is a whole other discussion.