Archive.today owner looks like a clown.
I had no idea they were doing all kinds of nefarious shit like that.
Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Beep@lemmus.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-03-10/Technology_report
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Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Pepperage Farm remembers when Wikipedia was mass transitioning citations to archive sites because the original sites couldn’t be trusted to retain the information over time.
Oh how the turn tables.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Wikipedia still does that, but only for trusted websites such as archive.org
null@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
Wikipedia not having their own archives by now is a huge vulnerability.
maus@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Especially given the amount of money they’ve raised. Insane that at this point they didn’t have a system to automatically archive any sources automatically
baatliwala@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
archivebox.io exists, they need to get to self-hosting one asap
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Them hosting their own archives of copyrighted articles would need to be non-public (for citation verification only), since if they did an archive.today-like public service, it would certainly get them sued by a constant carousel of copyright owners until they run out of money.
Archive.org might be a sign that most would look the other way, but given how tightly they are balanced between survival and oblivion, I don’t think that’s a good idea.