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minus-squareladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-213 days agoGitHub? Internet Archive? Wikipedia?
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down22·edit-213 days agoWhat are the alternatives to those?
minus-squareEncrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·edit-213 days ago GitHub - https://codeberg.org/ Internet Archive - https://archivebox.io/ Wikipedia - https://www.britannica.com/ or just literally any site created using https://mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
minus-squaretaipan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·13 days agoBritannica is headquartered in the US (Chicago) and most Wikipedia editors are not from the US, so I wouldn’t count out Wikipedia so quickly.
minus-squaredubyakay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoDamn. We need a decentralized archive and encyclopedia badly.
minus-squareladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·13 days agoExactly, you tell me since I’m just giving you examples of US hosted services as you asked for. Personally you could self host all three, but it would be a fairly expensive endeavour and you’d be operating on a brand new platform with no users.
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down16·13 days agoHow would i tell you when i asked you for the alternatives? That doesn’t make any sense.
minus-squareladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·12 days agoPray tell, how do you “pirate” a SSO service as you alluded to above? No one asked for alternatives. We’re more interested in how you’re gonna “pirate” these things. Cheers!
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·11 days agoI asked for alternatives. More than once. Cheers!
GitHub? Internet Archive? Wikipedia?
What are the alternatives to those?
Britannica is headquartered in the US (Chicago) and most Wikipedia editors are not from the US, so I wouldn’t count out Wikipedia so quickly.
Damn. We need a decentralized archive and encyclopedia badly.
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Exactly, you tell me since I’m just giving you examples of US hosted services as you asked for.
Personally you could self host all three, but it would be a fairly expensive endeavour and you’d be operating on a brand new platform with no users.
How would i tell you when i asked you for the alternatives? That doesn’t make any sense.
Pray tell, how do you “pirate” a SSO service as you alluded to above?
No one asked for alternatives. We’re more interested in how you’re gonna “pirate” these things. Cheers!
I asked for alternatives. More than once. Cheers!