Hello everyone,
Has anyone ever considered potentially building or launching a platform similar to the Internet Archive but using ActivityPub?
This could serve as a decentralized network to document, preserve, and protect online content from loss, censorship, and other threats, ensuring its availability for future generations.
For those unfamiliar, the Internet Archive is a non-profit that has been preserving digital media and promoting universal access to knowledge since 1996.
It’s famous for services like the Wayback Machine and Archive-It.
Given the importance of preserving digital heritage, especially in the context of censorship and data loss, a Fediverse-based equivalent could fill a crucial role.
The decentralized nature of ActivityPub could provide a robust alternative to centralized solutions.
I’d love to see this kind of project come to life, but, unfortunately, I lack the motivation, time, and energy to take it on alone.
Has anyone else ever considered something similar?
Are there any existing projects that might be interested in this direction?
This is well beyond my skillset (or knowledge level), but something like ArchiveBox combined with ActivityPub might be able to distribute internet archiving, each instance sharing with the fediverse what it has archived.