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trompetenaccoun ◴[] No.41895988[source]
We need archives built on decentralized storage. Don't get me wrong, I really like and support the work Internet Archive is doing, but preserving history is too important to entrust it solely to singular entities, which means singular points of failure.
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jdiff ◴[] No.41896411[source]
This seems to get brought at least once in the comments for every one of these articles that pops up.

The IA has tried distributing their stores, but nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are.

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zelphirkalt ◴[] No.41897685[source]
Perhaps one idea is to let people choose what they want to protect. This way people wanting to support it can have their mission.
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card_zero ◴[] No.41897959[source]
I want it to protect all sorts of random obscure documents, mostly kind of crappy, that I can't predict in advance, so I can pursue my hobby of answering random obscure questions. For instance:

* What is a "bird famine", and did one happen in 1880?

* Did any astrologer ever claim that the constellations "remember" the areas of the sky, and hence zodiac signs, that they belonged to in ancient times before precession shifted them around?

* Who first said "psychology is pulling habits out of rats", and in what context? (That one's on Wikiquote now, but only because I put it there after research on IA.)

Or consider the recently rediscovered Bram Stoker short story. That was found in an actual library, but only because the library kept copies of old Irish newspapers instead of lining cupboards with them.

The necessary documents to answer highly specific questions are very boring, and nobody has any reason to like them.

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deafpolygon ◴[] No.41900601[source]
My favorite question is: whether or not Bowser took the princess to another castle.
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1. card_zero ◴[] No.41900695[source]
Since the IA had a collection of emulators (some of them running online*), and old ROMs and floppies and such, it could probably help with that one too.

* Strictly speaking, running in-browser, but that sounded like "Bowser" so I wrote online instead.