>Would it make sense to arrange a coordinated approach as a group?
If you're talking about saving the internet archive as a whole, the short answer is no, that's like talking about a coordinated approach as a group to download the internet, there's a bandwidth and storage problem...
>Have one guy get as much as he can from Topic A, another from Topic B, etc and then figure out how to exchange data afterwards so everybody has a complete collection?
Maybe it's time for the internet archive crew to upload everything on IPFS
No I didn't mean the whole thing. That would be impossible. Just the stuff people in these parts tend to be interested in. The true version of history, race realism, etc.
When it comes down to it, everybody will pick what they find most important and go after that. It would just be a waste to have several people going after the same stuff in parallel. Maybe that's unavoidable.
IPFS looks promising. I had never heard of that before.
IPFS is alright but it's not always persistent. files may be there but you can never get all the pieces. If you're going to do a coordinated effort, I'd start with buying server space in the cloud. Most of it is run by big tech but not all. You could add space when people donate.
IPFS is quite a thing, it didn't get the attention it deserves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
The main strong point isn't anonymity as you can see in the table below, but it has speed (which freenet doesn't have) and it can run offline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_web_hosting
https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/
That's a direct link to a wiki page on IPFS https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/
You have i2p also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer (implemented as a Mix Network) that allows for censorship-resistant, peer to peer communication. Anonymous connections are achieved by encrypting the user's traffic (by using end-to-end encryption), and sending it through a volunteer-run network of roughly 55,000 computers distributed around the world. Given the high number of possible paths the traffic can transit, a third party watching a full connection is unlikely. The software that implements this layer is called an "I2P router", and a computer running I2P is called an "I2P node". I2P is free and open source, and is published under multiple licenses.[5]
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Now, even if we had a network that is fast enough, secure enough, "anonymous" enough (note the "unlikely" above... It means it's not mathematically impossible...), and "easy to use" enough... We still have a problem; how do you render it visible on the clearnet so you can share links with normies and casual chat anywhere, like right now between you and me... With IPFS you can as the wiki link accessible on ipfs.io above demonstrates, BUT, you have to go through a third party centralized server.... And here we go again.... Control the gateway, control the access... Sure you can still access the content but not without installing something.... Now ideally, if that required "something" could come up installed by default with any modern browser... That could be the solution
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