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Source: email from The Internet Archive

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Dear [Lemmy],

As reported last month, Vice Media will no longer publish on its flagship website, Vice.com, resulting in many journalists furiously trying to save their work before the feared deletion of the entire website. Similarly, news sites like Gawker and The Messenger have faced similar fates in recent years—websites currently devoid of reporting or articles.

The loss of these websites is a reminder that access to information must remain a fundamental right for all who seek it.

Thankfully, the Wayback Machine has become a vital resource in the fight to preserve media and knowledge for all. Journalists can save links to their works on the public archive, researchers can access original pieces of reporting, and nostalgic readers can revisit old favorites. And as the fight against misinformation and disinformation continues, the preservation of access to the historical record is more important than ever.

We have always provided our resources for free, powered by donations from individuals like you. If you find these services useful, please consider donating to help us build the digital library we deserve. If you cannot contribute, we understand, but any help is greatly appreciated.

Together, we can continue to advance universal access to all knowledge

Brewster Kahle Founder and Digital Librarian


PS: I would link the email, but it has my name in it. Also, if you're a millionaire the Archive would probably appreciate like half of it, and more normal people can do five bucks a month (but I get it you might be broke!). Donation link

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[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 84 points 5 months ago

If you can, run the Archive Team Warrior app on your computer. Help download and archive content!

[-] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 56 points 5 months ago

Remember that archive team is unaffiliated with archive.org.

You should still donate to support the storage & maintenance costs of archive.org

[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Well shit, TIL!

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 37 points 5 months ago
[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Does anyone know how light the Docker is? Will it stress out an underpowered device like a low end, but not ancient, Synology?

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's no different than running the app directly, performance wise. It does use more disk storage because the docker image is packaged with everything it needs to run instead of relying on your OS libraries.

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

As far as I can tell it’s always a VM or a Docker VM.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I'm not getting vice as a project on it :/

[-] FrostyTrichs@sh.itjust.works 33 points 5 months ago

It's been brought up before but it's worth remembering -

Depending on waybackmachine is fine for now, but a single point of failure to lose everything isn't much better than no backup at all. Always back up locally, to multiple mediums, and use your remote backups as a last resort.

[-] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Probably the wrong place to ask, but does archive.org backup everything multiple times? The amount they have saved is absolutely nuts. They depend on donations and i just wonder if content they have had for awhile is still backed up to newer harddrives after a few years?

[-] Xer0@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

It says they duplicate and backup all files at various locations: https://help.archive.org/help/archive-org-information/

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Probably but I think the point they were making was more along the lines of: what if the Internet archive itself ran out of money or closed up.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I'm afraid of the answer to this question tbh.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

Bonus points for the donation link in the OP. Take the rest of the day off!

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Plz CC: boss@lemminghardhardlylemming.srs

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago

Hoping they will archive the videos as well!

I'll be donating, again, to this fantastic public service!

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 12 points 5 months ago

Answer after just reading the title. The great cloud in the sky. LOL.

[-] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

I believe no matter how bad the articles are they are still worth preserving, as we can learn from the mistakes in them

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

There's nothing on Gawker worth saving let alone worthy of being called news.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Probably the same place Machinema's entire catelogue went.

[-] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 3 points 5 months ago

Vice articles are one of two things:

  1. Technologically-ignorant #ifuckinglovescience articles written by "tech journalists"
  2. "Drugs are good, mmkay"

Is there really a shortage of these on the internet?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

I did quite like the London Rental Opportunity of the Week column. Somebody should archive that at least.

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