There was a video I saw (I think it was hank or John Green), where they talked about the implications of twitter being deleted during the start of Elon. They pulled out a joke book they bought of "1000 twitter posts" and said how it would be the only recorded proof they (personally) had of what twitter was.

It's terrifying thinking of just how much information is just being put in the hands of companies that don't care or just on old hard drives about to give out due to funding. I wish there was a way to backup a random part of the information automatically, like a "I'll give you a terabyte of backup, make the most of it" automatically choosing what isn't backuped already.

Also add reddit too, the amount of times I've searched a question and went through 2024 website crap then went back to the search and added "site:reddit" into DuckDuckGo and got an answer instantly.

Man, it's gonna suck when Wikipedia burns to the ground twice.

Add wiki books https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Libretexts https://commons.libretexts.org/

And Openstax https://openstax.org/subjects

Wikipedia essentially can't be destroyed without a global catastrophe that would mean we have way worse problems. Wikipedia is downloadable. Meaning the ENTIRE Wikipedia. And so there are many copies of it stored all around the planet.

If you have an extra 150 GB of space available then you can download a personal copy for yourself

https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/

All the more reason to data horde. The costs of storing these libraries are going down, and it is likely that everyone can have their own copy of it all in the near future.

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

There pught to be a decentralized archive of YT. ...and Archive

Alexandria was important in its time, but in terms of the volume and quality of information we keep on Wikipedia alone, it is a mosquito in the Taj Mahal.