Apologies for the self-promo. Downvote and I'll know not to do it again.

This trend of outright banning the Internet Archive has me extremely worried. I fear a future where news articles are memoryholed, and no one can remember exactly what was reported and how sensational it all seemed.

I've been working on this project [0] for a while. Originally, I started with a tool that would allow people to snapshot webpages in their own browser, and they could selectively share their snapshots. Then by consensus, everyone could understand what exactly had changed, and they could draw their own conclusion about why.

While working on it, I realized that an authoritative answer to "what did it look like on $DATE" can't be produced by a no-name company. It's gotta be a non-commercial entity that's got a track record of integrity. The dream would be to allow MemoryHole customers to submit their snapshots to the Internet Archive (or other non-commercial entity). It's definitely a copyright nightmare - so no clue how this could work.

[0] - https://memoryhole.app

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iamalizard an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> It's definitely a copyright nightmare - so no clue how this could work.

It could work as a decentralized free and open source system that doesn't care about copyright. Like how torrents work now, but it would be good to have it work over Tor or something. Perhaps as a DAO for the management aspect of it. I don't know how exactly. But disregarding copyright by using a centralized company is the wrong idea.

Or you can do the lawful approach and try to work within the framework of that copyright nightmare. But "fuck copyright" is an easier path.

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entropie 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You - as a company - can just avoid any copyright stuff when your extension saves the stuff only on the client. I see there are many other issues then.

The torrent approach is nice. I could imagine a selfhosted way to store the data (for a group of people)

	▲	flippant 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I could imagine a selfhosted way to store the data (for a group of people) Linkwarden does this well. You can share a collection for a small group of people. https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

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RobRivera 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Tor is a honeypot run my government intel operations. Don't use it.

	▲	iamalizard 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Please provide evidence for such strong claims. Otherwise it's just FUD.

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entropie an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I really like this also reasonable priced.

Is there a way to export/download my saves in a reasonable way?

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		Thank you! Yes, you just get a zip file with all of your saved pages. It looks like this: ├── files │ └── 632daffb-2f4f-4795-bb4d-3149d24f4264 │ ├── original.html │ ├── readerview.html │ └── screenshot.png ├── manifest.json └── metadata.csv
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