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L0la L33tz L0laL33tz@cashu.me 6 months ago
insane. the Internet Archive is the single most important resource for journalists. it stops people from deleting things you may be investigating, and doesn't let anyone alter content after the fact to blame their faults on others (hello Elliptic). X is already blocking the Internet Archive. Now Reddit is following suit. Internet is over my guys. View quoted note →
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Cykros psyche_eros@iris.to 6 months ago
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, X and Reddit (and all other centralized social media) are the modern equivalent of the AOL tards. I do have a little bit of a hard time giving a damn what goes on in those silly places. For the Internet that exists somewhat more secluded from these bastions of eternal september, the Internet Archive lives.
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Duvel 6 months ago
I'm not sure if this is a sarcastic post or not. X and Reddit blocking the Internet Archive doesn't mean it can't be accessed. It's a very concerning trend. Can the internet archive be used as a decentralized storage, where people around the world dedicate some disk space?
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beejay beejay@nip-05.com 6 months ago
There's also archive.is, which saves screenshots of entire articles (and you can submit new ones as they are published). People use this one to see changes to articles, as well as to read behind paywalls. NewsDiff also keeps track of news article changes.
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beejay beejay@nip-05.com 6 months ago
There's also archive.is, which saves screenshots of entire articles (or you can submit new ones as they are published). People use this one to see changes to articles, as well as to read behind paywalls. NewsDiff also keeps track of news article changes. View quoted note →
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Duvel 6 months ago
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Here's a left-side-of-the-bell-curve way to do the Internet Archive "right": - Create browser extension - User loads page - User clicks "archive" button - Whatever is in user's browser gets signed & published to relays - Archival event contains URL, timestamp, etc. - Do OpenTimestamps attestation via NIP-03 - ??? - Profit I'm sure there's a 100 details I'm glossing over but because this is user-driven and does all the archiving "on the edge" it would just work, not only in theory but very much so in practice. The reason why the Internet Archive can be blocked is because it is a central thing, and if users do an archival request they don't do the archiving themselves, they send the request to a central server that does the archiving. And that central server can be blocked.
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7fqx 7fqx@ditto.pub 6 months ago
And the Grateful Dead subforum seems to be the most used. Struggling a bit to load it tho lol
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Gigi dergigi.com 6 months ago
It does if the extension grabs whatever is in the browser's DOM. If the user can see it then it can be archived. Just like taking a screenshot, but better.
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Gigi dergigi.com 6 months ago
Also: > just without nostr "Just" adding nostr is the whole point. It adds Web-of-Trust via nostr's social graph, it removes centrality in terms of scraping (the "archival" step happens on the user's machine), and it adds decentralized storage by pushing what is archived to relays (and media to e.g. blossom).
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