Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Already got a copy on my NAS, I update it every year or two when I remember to.

  But you’ve missed the point, my personal access to Wikipedia is not equivalent to the free access of information to everyone. The information just existing somewhere isn’t enough.

  And anyway a person can’t practically keep their own copy of the Internet Archive. It takes up something like a quarter of an exabyte

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  • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It existing somewhere is better than nothing, though. Internet archive on the other hand, that one is a lot harder.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes of course

      But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else

      Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:

      • It is enough information to answer any fact based question (with an answer)
      • It is available to anyone on the planet with ease and without cost

      There’s very little else we’ve created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.

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      • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But the fact that it’s relatively easy to download and backup makes me confident that someone, somewhere, will rehost it should it go down. Hell, I’d even take a crack at it.

        It’s kind of the point of federation, too. An instance can go down but anyone who federated with them will still have that data.

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