Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Yeah not gonna lie, i think i heard someone in a youtube video a while back talk about how the entirety of wikipedia takes up like 200 gigs or something like that, and it got me seriously considering to actually make that offline backup. Shit is scary when countries like the uk are basically blocking you from having easy access to knowledge.

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      14 days ago

      UKGOV haven’t started on things like Wikipedia yet. They know kids use it for school and blinded by ideology though they are, even they can see there’d be an enormous backlash if they blocked it any time soon.

      If that’s going to happen at all, I doubt it would be before the next election. That’s whether Labour get re-elected or the Tories make an unexpected comeback. You can tell how far Labour have fallen in the eyes of their party faithful when they’ve taken a Tory-drafted policy and made it their own.

      Ironically, the up and coming third option fascist party, have said they’re going to repeal the Online Safety Act. They have other fish to fry if they get in, and they’ll want to keep their preferred demographic(s) happy while they do it.

      I assume that eventually something like the OSA would come back to “protect the children”. They love the current US President.

      None of this is hopeful. Take this as more of a rant.