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That article points to an attempt to archive the images, https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur. This is a g

by rnk 3y ago

That article points to an attempt to archive the images, https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur. This is a good idea in general, but we need a reliable mechanism. Foundations with massive budgets are a great centralizing and stable archiving location, but I always worry that we need decentralized services too. Ideally all these archiving project would have both (a rich and powerful central repository as well as decentralized copies on random people's computers). What are the odds that archiveteam.org can make it work? The continual desire to censor naked pics on the internet so replicates the behavior of various idiots censoring literature and art over the ages.

prmoustache 3y ago
> That article points to an attempt to archive the images, https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur. This is a good idea in general, but we need a reliable mechanism. The solution is to pay for the storage you are using and store files on your own domain, one that you are willing to pay for a lifetime and/or even have a contract with relatives to maintain it if you want that content to survive you. I have an imgur account, and I have uploaded some images as anonymous as well. I've always treated those as throwable content. I would never publish anything that I deem permanent in a third party server or gloud service. Cool URIs don't change: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
celsoazevedo 3y ago
In this case you'd need to make copies of the Internet Archive (archive.org). The Archive Team "only" organises the scrapping as far as I'm aware (volunteers run some servers, write code to scrap the service, etc) and then other volunteers run the VMs that do the scrapping. Then they upload the content to the Internet Archive and this imgur backup will end up on the IA's Wayback Machine. According to the project tracker[0], 4TB or 3.55M items have been saved so far (15 hours), over 40M in waiting, but according to their IRC[1] more URLs will be added later. --- [0] https://tracker.archiveteam.org/imgur/ https://tracker.archiveteam.org/imgur/ [1] https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/imgone https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/imgone

by rnk 3y ago

prmoustache 3y ago

> That article points to an attempt to archive the images, https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur. This is a good idea in general, but we need a reliable mechanism. The solution is to pay for the storage you are using and store files on your own domain, one that you are willing to pay for a lifetime and/or even have a contract with relatives to maintain it if you want that content to survive you. I have an imgur account, and I have uploaded some images as anonymous as well. I've always treated those as throwable content. I would never publish anything that I deem permanent in a third party server or gloud service. Cool URIs don't change: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

celsoazevedo 3y ago

In this case you'd need to make copies of the Internet Archive (archive.org). The Archive Team "only" organises the scrapping as far as I'm aware (volunteers run some servers, write code to scrap the service, etc) and then other volunteers run the VMs that do the scrapping. Then they upload the content to the Internet Archive and this imgur backup will end up on the IA's Wayback Machine. According to the project tracker[0], 4TB or 3.55M items have been saved so far (15 hours), over 40M in waiting, but according to their IRC[1] more URLs will be added later. --- [0] https://tracker.archiveteam.org/imgur/ https://tracker.archiveteam.org/imgur/ [1] https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/imgone https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/imgone