Does lemmy have any communities dedicated to archiving/hoarding data?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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The broad censorship of government data in the US, combined with the recent political attacks on Wikipedia caused me to download the whole English Wikipedia earlier this year. Guessing OP is similar
Not sure why they'd download Debian with all packages though
Edit: I should mention it's less about a potential loss of Wikipedia as it is a personal source of truth on politically sensitive topics that get censored, or turned to propaganda by bots
For example the Wounded Knee Massacre. Pete Hegseth has recently been calling it the, "Battle of Wounded Knee". I wouldn't be surprised if the current administration went to war with Wikipedia and forced them to 1) Change articles they disagree with, and 2) Hide those changes from history
My rationale with Debian is that distros are kind of like portals to entire compendiums of free and open-source software. With the increasing attacks on vpns in particular right now, I'm concerned there are any number of programs we take for granted that we might not have access to soon.
The internet is already deeply enshittified. There is a real possibility that it will no longer be a free and open web in any capacity soon. So it's past time to make archives, and start setting up meshnets.
I had downloaded the full (no pictures) Wikipedia earlier this year for exactly this reason. This thread told me about kiwix, which is awesome, so I downloaded the "Wikipedia .08" using kiwix, which is the best 45,000 articles from Wikipedia with pictures and it's 7G, very manageable, has most topics anyone would care about.