I'm not super familiar with the Archive Team - what distinguishes this specific archiving effort from the dataset that PushShift archived? Is this primarily focusing on archiving specifically media (video, iamges), or comments/submissions in the time period since PushShift closed, or everything from the entire time period from 2005 onward?
I'm so glad there is an alternative to reddit now. I love this community and would find it hard to leave reddit if there wasn't an another similar forum
Scummy behaviour from Reddit, but a potential boon for archivists. People who are running backups or maintaining archives of Reddit comments might want to take this opportunity to re-check historical deleted comments to see if they can be collected now, in this remaining window of API accessibility.
Lemmy has a few bugs and it's slow. The subscribe button sometimes take a couple minutes to work, and I can't even create a post in the lemmy.world community. It will take a few more months to perfect it.
It's not perfect. But I've noticed a disdain for Lemmy in people for no reason at all. I think it's due to the perceived complexity. If you go to join-lemmy.org, it's a little confusing. Many simply give up trying to decide which instance to join. That's a reason why sites like squabbles are getting so much attention.
I realize I’m late to this thread, but if you’re serious about archiving a VHS in the best manner possible, you have to go the RF capture route: https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
This method effectively captures the “raw” signal stored on the tape, allowing you to convert it after you’ve captured it however you see fit. You don’t have to worry about cheap digitizers/capture cards/etc distorting the signal.
Unlimited* plans are always sold on the idea that a sizeable part of the user base aren't going to use an actual unlimited amount of the resource.
Unless there is a contract regarding a fee over a period of time, there isn't that much that users can do to compel a service to offer a service they no longer want to offer.
They still happily exist on YouTube- for now. So no point in re-hosting, they'll get squirreled away into the Giant Hard Drive of Doom.
If something happens to the actual archive project in the near future, I'll likely section them up into 20gb pieces and post them out on a torrent someplace.
I still have my 150GB free account from Storj which I use for some backups so I can't speak from a paying customer perspective. From my experience, it's okay -- never really had downtime (at least I never noticed) and I couldn't say anything negative about it. It does have a "per segment fee" so just be aware of that.
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