At some point they’re going to go after Wikipedia and the Wayback Machine. More decentralised global efforts needed.
“He who controls the past controls the future.”
“He who controls the past controls the future.”
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/1/21/2298213/-Elon-Musk-and-the-Heritage-Foundation-Put-WIKIPEDIA-In-Their-Crosshairs?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=latest_community&pm_medium=web
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
People have no clue how bad this truly is.
Right now it seems this site is the only safe-ish place that we can exist in relative safety from the onslaught that is coming. A corrupted SCOTUS has enabled the death of truth. Wikipedia could be deleted tomorrow. Anything digital can be altered.
I really wish I could get someone to buy into my idea. We can do it now with a Cloudlfare for privacy.
One new AI framework could change the internet completely.
When he declared a (fabricated) "national emergency," he'll have the power to shut down communications.
Enough PDS's distributed , storage supplied for content and replicated in different countries. we have an open decentralized solution
becomes a game of wack-a-mole
@freeourfeeds.com
Operating platforms for where it all runs , this becomes the challenging decision.
I remain hopeful in the world of tech, not tech bro life, but the engineering abilities of people to solve a problem.
Could basically take Jetstream and FAN-out our just have regional listeners
And the ultimate fallback being an onion site.
truly inspirational, no notes
We've been gotten so used to the idea that someone else can run and own it all for us that we've forgotten the joys of doing it for ourselves.
AI is just another step to entrenching and reinforcing this ideology too.
We need to revive one of the distributed data storage systems that breaks a data file (like a large Wayback backup, and it's very large) into "chunks" and spreads them out over tens of thousands of computers (encrypted) but still enables retrieval.
Bummer.
You can do that with https://kiwix.org/en/
Now is a good time to dl a copy.
@freeourfeeds.com
https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
https://library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng
See: Springee, Nableezy
Only a matter of time before the movie industry finds the pirated media on IA servers and then it's game over for the IA.
It’s their future at stake too. The planet and its inhabitants are moving into a ‘high risk for future extinction’ zone.
Don’t think offshore accounts are going to assure survival.