Which pathetic limp dick asshat is attacking the internet archive?
Fucking spend the time to attack a company that deserves it.
The companies that deserves it…
Nestle and Meta would be a wonderful start.
I think they’re responding to your question. The companies that deserve it are probably the ones behind the attack.
Who do I crowdfund to DDoS the DDoS’ers?
The Internet Archive, and by extension the Wayback Machine, are integral to Internet democracy and accountability. We can’t lose that.
Man, the internet archive is one of the good sites that’s not a puke gobbling corporate, can we direct attacks to someone worthy of the heat instead?
Let’s use this as a catalyst to support them and similar projects. I’ll be donating a chunk of money to them and also to the Wikimedia foundation and other related FOSS projects.
If you are able to donate, please do! If we all do our small part, we can make a big difference.
And now two of the websites I have an overwhelming reliance on are basically facing the threat of potentially disappearing for good. Now I have another thing to donate to.
What’s the second?
The rest of the Internet Archive, you know, the thing that hosts files and public domain things and some software and whatnot.
The first is the Wayback Machine.
Ah. I usually conflate the two under “internet archive”.
They’re technically both owned of the Internet Archive, however one is for browsing old versions of websites, and the other is for general archiving of media.
And both are facing the threat of potentially becoming no more.
Monolithic Archive systems like Internet Archive are cool, but we really should be pushing for better localized infrastructure usage for this kind of archiving, IMO.
That’s another potential defederated API to build out. I doubt it will end up developed, since most opensource devs are already busy on other projects.
if you want to help but cant spare any money, consider hosting the archive warrior to help them out.
