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[โ€“] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I've been supporting Wikipedia with a monthly $5 donation. By now, ~$150 in total! I want to support all kinds of great projects, but I don't have an infinite amount of money to share between everything that exists ๐Ÿ˜”

I might switch to a monthly donation to The Internet Archive just because of how crucial its existence is.

[โ€“] Slayer@infosec.pub 67 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 41 points 5 months ago

Their main argument for not donating to Wikipedia is because it's improperly monetized?

Good. I'm sick of everything good having to have every single aspect of it monetized. Fuck the modern corporate internet

[โ€“] Oisteink@feddit.nl 30 points 5 months ago

how about ddosnโ€™t? Please?

[โ€“] ekZepp@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They should release an app where people can donate a portion of their storage to be used for redundancy in case anything happens to the archive.

[โ€“] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While I fully support the spirit of this idea, the problem here has little to do with a lack of storage redundancy and everything to do with the bandwidth limitations of a nonprofit company vs a malicious nation state that would seek to deny access to this sort of resource. Basically, given enough bandwidth, you either become resilient to most of these attacks or you become capable of performing them yourself on anyone with a slower connection than you.

I think the Internet Archive would be better served by direct donations, although I'd also love to see a complete torrent posted that gets updated regularly for anyone with the storage and bandwidth necessary to grab and then re-seed it. The web content alone is nearly a trillion pages, though, so that's not going to be a long list of volunteers.

[โ€“] xilona@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

As you said, the solution is simple: Decentralized instances.

Anyone could spin a "WebArchive" instance and have the data synced from the other independent nodes... Similar to how crypto ledgers sync transactions...

But wait... this means anyone could see past removed important historical data from websites which may not benefit [ YOU KNOW WHO ]

[โ€“] archchan@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago

Yay, crimes against humanity!

[โ€“] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

Is it bad that I keep wondering if one of the big book publishers bought a DDoS from somebody's botnet?

[โ€“] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Probably Zionist losers having trouble with recorded history again.