archive.org discourse
bleh. I think someone ought to be doing what Archive.org does--a LOT of someones, in fact--but we've gotta improve how we do it
Archive.org kinda...does whatever. it's like the Wild West days of the Internet, and I don't think that's a good thing
I want actual curators and librarians archiving things, not just some dudes with a server farm and an attitude of "oh yeah put whatever in here, we don't care"
re: archive.org discourse
@Alyx I feel obliged to point out that the berries.space thing was done by Archive Team, which is like archive.org except explicitly opposed to anyone saying "don't archive this, please" with a robots.txt (and probably in general)
like, if we're having a conversation about the ethics of archiving people's public content on the internet, that needs to include archive.org, but what happened with berries wasn't even that ethical
re: archive.org discourse
@Alyx *nods*
they're both downloading sites and hosting them on other servers for archival purposes and their names start with the same entire word, so
you and like half the fediverse probably