{"instance":{"name":"Found Media Archive Reading Room","shortDescription":"A platform documenting the physical experience of finding and playing forgotten media. The tapes, the machines, the ritual — not just the content. For people who believe how you encounter media matters.","description":"A self-hosted video platform documenting the physical experience of finding and playing forgotten media.\n\n**The tapes. The machines. The encounter itself.**\n\nBecause there's something irreplaceable about watching a tape spin, hearing a reel click into place, seeing the texture of aging plastic. These objects hold memory in their physicality, and that encounter — the ritual of playing them — is part of what they are.\n\n**Every found recording is evidence that someone cared enough to preserve something.**\n\nFor people who slow down when they see a box of tapes at an estate sale. Who understand that the weight of a VHS tape in your hand means something. Who think \"playing\" something is different from \"streaming\" it.\n\nFor people who believe *how* you encounter media matters.\n\n---\n\n**Contact:** [adam.leedy@gmail.com](mailto:adam.leedy@gmail.com)  \n**Main site:** [foundmediaarchive.com](https://foundmediaarchive.com)","terms":"No terms for now.","codeOfConduct":"","hardwareInformation":"","creationReason":"","moderationInformation":"","administrator":"","maintenanceLifetime":"","businessModel":"","languages":["en"],"categories":[4,10,1,8],"banners":[],"avatars":[]}}