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Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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Oh good idea, thank you! Yeah, I think because of the federation stuff, it should persist, although I think that will complicate searching and finding things. I'm pretty sure this is the largest instance to go down to date, so I'd rather be safe than to lose things, even if it is only a small instance.
This does make me a bit nervous for how archiving larger instances will look when one eventually dies, though. A spider that logs everything into a spreadsheet and then splitting into different groups would probably be the best option. Or maybe a local ArchiveBox setup could work too. All the Lemmy admins seem fairly resonable though, so perhaps they might even upload everything directly into the Internet Archive themselves