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Roundcat, in The Internet Archive is an important resource and needs to be saved.
Roundcat avatar

What if the internet archives, instead of a single site, was a bunch of federated instances sharing content with each other like fediverse?

I am of course very ignorant to how internet archives actually works, and not very tech savy, but would something like I'm suggesting be theoretically possible?

beejjorgensen,
@beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Yes, for storage, if we coordinated enough. Such technologies already exist. But IA also does tons of archival work that isn’t so easily distributed. And their lending system isn’t easily legally federated.

thefartographer,

Ok, but what if we wanted to each take pieces of that tree of knowledge and help others learn from it. Could we possibly hold onto that information and plant our own little trees with seeds? And the more people who had seeds, the faster the tree would download grow.

^Arrrgh matey^

WallsToTheBalls,

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intensely_human,

Their lending system is not part of their core functionality and IMO should be a separate thing.

octiman,

It’s an interesting idea. It would take a lot of infrastructure though.

mojo,

you kinda described ipfs

CrabAndBroom,

Yeah that was my first thought too. That seems like a way better idea than just entrusting it to the Library of Congress as the article suggests. For one thing, the internet archive isn’t just American stuff. For another, there’s no way the government won’t just bend over backwards as soon as a big corporation asks it to. Thirdly, it seems like a much better idea to keep it decentralized and to keep the corporations playing whack-a-mole with it than to just keep giving them one big, static target to aim at.

liv,

Even if we just decentralised/federated the Wayback Machine, that would really be great.

redcalcium,

It’s already working like that, at least on the indexer side. You can create an account and use their app or browser extensions and start snapshotting websites you visit and submit them to the wayback machine. Storage is still centralized in The Internet Archive datacenter though.

distantorigin, in What are you self-hosting?

I host the following off of the top of my head, in no particular order. Some are hosted at home on a combination of a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Synology DS1821+ NAS, some are hosted on a dedicated server:

  • Bitwarden
  • GitLab
  • Pi-hole
  • Miniflux
  • Previously I used NginxProxyManager, now I just use Caddy
  • Samba/FTP server
  • Seafile
  • URL shortener at cmd.gg
  • Syncthing
  • ResilioSync
  • qBitTorrent
  • Glances
  • VirtualDSM to isolate a friend's media and hosting from my own on the NAS
  • HomeAssistant
  • Mastodon
  • Kbin
  • A couple of MOOs
  • Bitlbee
  • Wordpress/Classicpress
  • Overpass (OpenStreetMap API)
  • Icecast - not sure why I host this anymore...
  • MinIO as a restic backup target
  • UniFi controller

I also run PFSense at home for my router, on a Protectli Vault, if that counts as self-hosting. Seems more like sysadmin, but there you go. I use Uptimerobot to monitor everything and create sleek public status pages.

chillybones,

I had no idea you could host your own Bitwarden instance. The whole reason I moved to Bitwarden in the first place was one of the Lastpass hacks, being in control of my own password manager instance from my favorite password manager would be amazing. Is it free to self- host?

Also curious about your UniFi controller, are you considering a DM/DM Pro a 'self-hosted' controller or do you use one of those Dockerized container solutions?

distantorigin,

I use Vaultwarden in Docker, which is a light-weight Rust implementation of the Bitwarden server. You can just point any of the apps or browser extensions to your server at login and it works seamlessly. The oficial Bitwarden Server is also available, but when last I used it, it was much more resource intensive and had a number of docker containers as dependencies instead of the single container for Vaultwarden.

For UniFi, I use a docker image--currently, I'm using this one.

buedi,

I am not so sure about Bitwarden self-hosted, I think it is free with a limited set of features, but there is Vaultwarden by Dani Garcia on GitHub which works very well and is compatible with the official Bitwarden Clients, just in case the Web Interface is not enough.

alicehughes, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

While the study suggests that a significant portion of Reddit content may be influenced by corporate trolls, it's important to approach such claims with a critical mindset. Reddit, like many online platforms, can be susceptible to manipulation, but not all content can be assumed to be the result of malicious intent. It's advisable to verify information from multiple sources before drawing conclusions.For more insights into online content and discussions, visit our website Chat GPT Login. Keep sharing!

millie, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

I’d imagine it’s probably closer to 30% on Reddit. Hell, it’s probably 15% on lemmy.

raccoona_nongrata,
@raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org avatar

Yeah, thought the same thing, sounds low. Though, there’s plenty of Russian and CCP trolls too, so maybe they’ve pushed out corporations for the lion’s share.

JiminyPicket, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion
@JiminyPicket@beehaw.org avatar

Reddit gets shittier by the day. Currently, they’re blocking users using a VPN, they’re trying to force you to either login to read, or to stop using a VPN so they can have even more of your data. Reddit should be burned to the ground, it’s a data-harvesting cesspool, run by a bunch of greedy dickheads. I wish everyone would wake up and leave at the same time, destroy their IPO.

Powderhorn,
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I’m not a Reddit exponent by any means, but I’ve yet to run into an issue using the site on Mullvad at the router level. There’s unfortunately communities there that can offer useful information not easily found by search engines.

JiminyPicket,
@JiminyPicket@beehaw.org avatar

Yeah, unfortunate because all that information could easily move here if Reddit users stopped feeding the machine. The site is being blocked intermittently for numerous VPN users, using Proton, Mullvad, Nord etc. They say it’s a code error but it’s clearly trying to force people to use their crappy app, or login with no privacy.

resketreke,
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There's a way to bypass the blockade. swap "www" with "old" in the web address and you're good to go.

Stillhart, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

Did the definition of “trolls” suddenly change or is this author just using it wrong? Corporate astroturfing? Sure that makes sense. Corporate trolling? Not sure I get the point of that.

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

I think the editor was absent that day.

millie,

One meaning of the verb ‘troll’ is to misrepresent reality to provoke some sort of reaction. Usually the desired reaction is related to frustration or confusion, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be.

Like, there were certainly things that were worth a bunch of points on Game of Trolls that were less connected to making people angry than to getting them to believe you.

stown, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion
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Pistcow, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

Yeah, I’ve been to r/movies.

Butterbee, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion
@Butterbee@beehaw.org avatar

Well, the article (at least in the free part… I’m not making an account just to fact check this site) mentions two studies right off the bat and claims that they shed light on the impact of corporate trolls on Reddit.

“Two significant studies, the Pew Research Center study conducted in 2018 and the Computers in Human Behavior study published in 2020, have shed light on the prevalence and impact of corporate trolls on Reddit.”

If you look up these studies, the Pew Research Center has a survey they conduct and although the article claims they interviewed 2500 americans who use reddit the actual study had only 2,002 adults. It was also a study about what sites they used. It had nothing to do with Reddit. In fact, if you switch over to the Detailed Table, Reddit wasn’t even mentioned as a response. pewresearch.org/…/social-media-use-2018-methodolo…

I could not find a “Computers in Human Behavior study published in 2020” that matched the article’s description. I did find a study published by them in 2020 about selfies and body image and especially snapchat. Once again, no reddit. But I can’t say I found the article mentioned.

Then again, I can’t say the articles mentioned exist at all. ChatGPT almost certainly hallucinated this.

AndrasKrigare,

Time to add medium.com to the trash list

520,

medium.com is a blogging site, not entirely unlike Blogger or Wordpress.

Treat it with as much of a pinch of salt as you would any other blogging site.

GammaGames,

I’m surprised there’s still people that don’t know what medium is tbh

OpenStars,
@OpenStars@kbin.social avatar

A study on astroturfing on Reddit, written in the style of Reddit by an astroturfer - oh the delicious irony? :-P

brie, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

The study is from 2018, and I wasn’t able to locate the original source from searching. Also, from the author’s bio:

Ph.D. Rocket Surgeon & Aspiring Troglodyte

The Hacker News discussion also does not inspire confidence…

juliebean, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

couldn’t read the whole article, but the first couple paragraphs seem to contradict the headline. ‘~15% of reddit users have encountered corporate astroturfing’ is not the same as ‘15% of content on reddit is corporate astroturfing’.

Kidplayer_666, in New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

Isn’t this website AI generated stuff

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

Medium? Not that I know, but I don’t keep up with these things.

i_am_not_a_robot,

Some portion of it likely is. Medium is like Wordpress.com with paywalls.

520,

Medium is a blog hosting site. It's all user generated and there's zero editorial control.

cafuneandchill, in Human brain-like supercomputer with 228 trillion links coming in 2024

The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly: I’d rather use them to mimic something better.

Edsger W. Dijkstra, “On the cruelty of really teaching computing science”, 1988

sabreW4K3, in Adobe calls off $20 billion acquisition of Figma
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

There’s some comments here if you’re interested: lemmy.tf/post/2853006

MJBrune,

I wish there were better ways to past around lemmy post links because lemmy.tf is down for me right now.

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

Should be back up now. Was funny because it’s a link back to beehaw.

MJBrune,

This points out to me that I don’t think I understand how Lemmy works. Why aren’t comments on this exact post on a different server coming through to this comment section?

sabreW4K3,
@sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf avatar

Lemmy.TF was down because it was being updated to 0.19, so the URL couldn’t find what the link ID was pointing to

smeg,

I think it’s a different post linking a different article about the same story

HurlingDurling,

Thanks internet friend

t3rmit3, in EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation

Hey look! Governments that aren’t 100% solely beholden to corporate interests!

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