> The data Discogs has – just like Bandcamp and just like what has been lost at MySpace – is irreplaceable and ever growing. So to have years of culture on Twit

> The data Discogs has – just like Bandcamp and just like what has been lost at MySpace – is irreplaceable and ever growing. So to have years of culture on Twitter – everything from the continued existence of legacy accounts to the basic usefulness of news organizations being verified – been ravaged by Elon Musk’s vanity. The internet is forever, until it’s ripped away by people who don’t add value to it. I am not actually sure I agree with the author's premise at all. Nothing digital is forever, if anything, the opposite is true. The internet is completely ephemeral. And it's only through the persistence, hard work, and money of dedicated people that anything is preserved. Secondly, hoarding lots of data on the internet != a community. Maybe it's the activity that a community could build itself around, or maybe it's the public space that they use. But the reason places like Geocities or MySpace collapsed is because they held feverishly onto all of the data but none of the community. And maybe it's worth it to hold onto stuff that's been abandoned (even if it's borderline hoarding), but I would argue that it is entirely irrelevant to what went wrong with the Bandcamp situation.