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We need a censorship resistant version of archive.org. Somewhere we can store history and records and reality. I see a lot about things being removed from archive.org and that's not good. Other current alternatives are equally at risk. I have my own collection of computer magazine scans from the 80" s and 90''s as well as store catalogs and pin up art and 50s SciFi. I also have random video documentaries about various life things. Is there an easy way to do this? Can we have large decentralized archives?

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Agree.
AmberSky's avatar AmberSky
We need a censorship resistant version of archive.org. Somewhere we can store history and records and reality. I see a lot about things being removed from archive.org and that's not good. Other current alternatives are equally at risk. I have my own collection of computer magazine scans from the 80" s and 90''s as well as store catalogs and pin up art and 50s SciFi. I also have random video documentaries about various life things. Is there an easy way to do this? Can we have large decentralized archives?
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I have been thinking about this a bit lately. I need to setup a storage solution to start saving the articles and important things I see online. Would have been great to have a complete archive of everything I was reading through covid. The other problem is not just saving everything but how to catalogue it so that it can be searched and browsed in the future in a sensible way and not just gathering dust on an old hard drive. Would love to hear anyones solutions.
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Someone has probably made what I am looking for just have not really searched for something yet. Another think to add to the todo list. This one looks interesting: "ArchiveBox is an open source tool that lets organizations & individuals archive both public & private web content while retaining control over their data. It can be used to save copies of bookmarks, preserve evidence for legal cases, backup photos from FB/Insta/Flickr or media from YT/Soundcloud/etc., save research papers, and more…”
GitHub
GitHub - ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox: 🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more... - A...
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Self-hosted solution saving and indexing everything you've seen online, keeping a complete archive, tracking every change in the content. This sounds like heaven and hell at the same time. But I guess with smart search, filtering, AI, and whatnot, this will be amazing. I wonder if there are projects trying to achieve this.
AmberSky's avatar AmberSky
We need a censorship resistant version of archive.org. Somewhere we can store history and records and reality. I see a lot about things being removed from archive.org and that's not good. Other current alternatives are equally at risk. I have my own collection of computer magazine scans from the 80" s and 90''s as well as store catalogs and pin up art and 50s SciFi. I also have random video documentaries about various life things. Is there an easy way to do this? Can we have large decentralized archives?
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