content: The Pain Of Being Censored Never Goes Away I've wasted many years of my life writing on various Internet forums.  It was the very best that I had within me, the most value that I could give to humanity... Many of them (especially Reddit, Free Talk Live, Facebook, etc) turned out to be honey-pot operations to suck me in, get me addicted to their restrictive proprietary platforms, and then ultimately flush all my life's work down the toilet... Those scumbags have burned a million times more books than the "nazis" - a countless amount of human thought and productive mental effort, perhaps some bits that are among the greatest things that humans have ever written, forever lost... Remember to ALWAYS archive everything you write, both remotely and locally.  I don't just mean trusting archive.org or .is (probably honeypots as well, just waiting to stab us in the back).  Make many complete copies, so that no one can delete it.  Failure to do so can cost you dearly. I am in constant psychological pain.  I wake up in pain, I go to bed in pain, like a person who is going to be tortured and executed in a few minutes.  For me it was like having all of my children murdered - and no one even understands my pain... 😭 It would be beneficial if more capable people than I collaborated on a project to fully archive Voat - every page, every comment, every edit.  Making the "deleted" comments viewable would be very beneficial, because they cause conversations (that other people may have spent hours of effort on) to lose their context and become incoherent.   If I just try to scrape it that might be seen as a DoS attack and blocked, so this should be an open efforts, ideally with help from the admins.  The full archive can be dumped every X hours/days in the ZIM format onto P2P networks like BitTorrent and IPFS...