• dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    I’m still a little suspicious of the claim it was established in 1919. A google search restricting results to “before 2020” turns up absolutely nothing for “trail fixing collective”

    I’m not even sure that you have the right group. The WGME tweet says that TFC group is a subgroup of AMC Appalachian Mountain Club. It may not even have a website.

    The 2 articles I linked were from 2016.

    The URL for AMC is https://outdoors.org/ . It has captures on The Internet Archive going back to 1997.

    For one though, you should not trust google search results as being a limit of known information. Google search is very bad and getting worse. Websites from before 2020 just don’t exist anymore. Old webpages get deleted or paywalled and then removed from google search results.

    Also, much of recorded history from before the internet, simply isn’t on the internet.

    http://web.archive.org/web/20010402013024/http://www.outdoors.org/

    e/ on the about page of the website that you linked. it says that “trail fixing collective” was established in 2021 after being inspired by the old TFC group and asks old members to contact them.

    So you’re right in the sense that “trail fixing collective” didn’t exist before 2021. However, it was created based on a different group called “TFC” which was established in 1919.

    https://www.trailfixingcollective.com/our-story

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      I’m not even sure that you have the right group.

      Huh. Weird. It’s exactly the same crossed axes though? Like, verbatim it is the same. And for both to have 1919? Seems like far too much coincidence.

      I don’t know man these situations are sus and I lean towards not taking risks with potential nazis tbh. I don’t care whether I’m right or wrong it is worth rejecting people like this on the basis of suspicion alone. If you reject them you’ll never get nazis, if you take risks sometimes you’ll be wrong and they’ll be nazis.