[-] archivist@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

In case you haven't looked into it yourself yet...

ArchiveTeam are independent from IA, but their stuff mostly does end up uploaded into the Wayback Machine. Storage space (like yours) isn't usually what they are looking for, but rather the internet bandwidth and "virgin" IP address of aforementioned "warriors" running their code to scrape different websites, and then uploading the results to AT's servers, where they are collected and eventually uploaded again to IA.

Check out https://tracker.archiveteam.org/ for current projects

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by archivist@lemm.ee to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60191746

It’s a creative act to find and make sense of my own history, one that requires a leap of faith in order to fill in the silences, erasures, omissions, and genuine mysteries that old books and documents, records and artifacts, represent. A lot is left to the imagination. Much of what survives from the past asks more questions than we can answer. This is true for queer and trans archival traces, as it is for other aspects of humanity that are poorly accounted for in public records, or actively discriminated against through surveillance and omission in equal parts.

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