• iamthetot@piefed.ca
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    2 hours ago

    It existing somewhere is better than nothing, though. Internet archive on the other hand, that one is a lot harder.

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      15 minutes ago

      Yes of course

      But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else

      Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:

      • It is enough information to answer any question that has an empirically known answer
      • It is available to anyone on the planet with ease and without cost

      There’s very little else we’ve created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.

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        6 minutes ago

        But the fact that it’s relatively easy to download and backup makes me confident that someone, somewhere, will rehost it should it go down. Hell, I’d even take a crack at it.

        It’s kind of the point of federation, too. An instance can go down but anyone who federated with them will still have that data.