Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 day agoIt existing somewhere is better than nothing, though. Internet archive on the other hand, that one is a lot harder.
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:
There’s very little else we’ve created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.
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.