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Are there any alternatives to the Internet Archive that are built around P2P, so that everyone can contribute to hosting/sharing web archives? Seems like having all these important archives hosted by (andrew.masto.host)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

There was a ActivityPub wiki clone, no idea where it got to.

The major upside of IA being built and owned by one central company is trust. We can (so far at least, if I'm wrong please correct me) trust IA to not censor/rewrite history. As soon as every man and his dog can contribute, that gets a lot harder to guarantee.

Edit: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis

Don't take me linking it as endorsement, I think federated wiki's for anything other than fandom stuff to be madness.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Sounds like a potential application for a blockchain techs, that allows to do verifications, voting and consensus.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ive had similar ideas on verified unaltered media to combat fake news. Such an archive but for journalism would be a great start.

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