This is delicious and will only surprise their base, who love to paint those of us in the queer community as sexually perverted fetishists who shouldn’t be trusted with children. #notadragqueen
This is delicious and will only surprise their base, who love to paint those of us in the queer community as sexually perverted fetishists who shouldn’t be trusted with children. #notadragqueen
FYI: for those who have been using archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph for paywall evasion and archiving articles for posterity.
Apparently the operator of this archiving service has been using the service for targeted harassment (both technical via DDOS, and social via doxxing) of someone. Wikipedia, which was also a heavy user of the service, has decided to move away from the service and is trying to plan out how to do so (it has been used for hundreds of thousands of references).
Posting mostly for awareness about the DDOS part… basically it means every time you visit the service your computer is used to send connection requests to the recipient of the harassment, slowing their computers to a crawl and making them unable to host content, effectively silencing them online. So, no one should click on or use any links from this service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-03-10/Technology_report
If this is true, then making a thread with it as the source should be prohibited.
Any good alternatives for those of us stuck in “pay or ok” land?
The doxing and harassment and ddos are pretty awful, but I think the worst part is that they’re accused of altering archived copies of websites which means they can’t be trusted as an archive.
They were straight up putting some dudes name into random crime articles to slander him, then tried to blackmail the guy, I think because he was a wikipedia editor?
I need to reread it all again sometime, dude fully crashed out
It was because he wrote a blog post or article trying to figure out who the person behind the archive[.]today site was.
Specifically using publicly available information that they could find on search engines.
They didn’t track them down with a PI or anything quite like that.
Wikimedia Foundation is big enough (and more importantly, foundation-y enough) that it should spin up its own archive.
plus it’s an excellent opportunity to make it distributed, which helps with both sharing the load and making sure the content isn’t altered.
Just do like peertube and have things downloadable both via http and via torrent, it’s not perfect but clearly i works.