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The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days (www.engadget.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I've been supporting Wikipedia with a monthly $5 donation. By now, ~$150 in total! I want to support all kinds of great projects, but I don't have an infinite amount of money to share between everything that exists 😔

I might switch to a monthly donation to The Internet Archive just because of how crucial its existence is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

summary of issues with Wikipedia written by a Lemmy developer https://ibis.wiki/article/Announcing_Ibis,[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think The Internet Archive needs it more.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago

Their main argument for not donating to Wikipedia is because it's improperly monetized?

Good. I'm sick of everything good having to have every single aspect of it monetized. Fuck the modern corporate internet

[+] [email protected] -11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If only they hadn't shot themselves so hard in the foot during covid with their book lending, and dug the hole so much deeper with their piss poor handling of the lawsuit.

While I do very much support what they do, I'd be reluctant to give them money, if only because it might go to paying their dumbass lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That lawsuit was a long time in coming. Covid just goosed the schedule forward about a year, and probably made it easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

The lawsuit wasn't coming because they were in a strong grey area with one physical copy per digital. By offering unlimited copies they directly invited a lawsuit.

And then their legal defense had absolutely no competency behind it. They didn't come with any legal principles, they basically just said "we shouldn't be punished because we're nice", and then they tried the same style of argument during appeal, basically throwing money away on legal expenses. All the while they were campaigning for donations - the people that supported them were paying the lawyers, not for the IA's regular activities.