archive.is is compromised. We need a new archiving strategy (Git repository) (pizzagate)

submitted ago by newworldahead

This is infuriating: https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1569388

We need a new strategy to ensure that the evidence we share never disappear. I suggest we create a GiT repository for pizzagate.

What is GiT? GiT is a decentralized open source version control system. You can add as many files as you want in your GiT "repository". Any change to the files in the repository is kept. Nothing is ever destroyed unless you go out of your way to destroy it. Even if something gets removed from the repository, the history of the original file is kept.

Why would it help us? Thanks to its decentralized nature, all users can have their own up to date copy of the "main" repository. This means that if the main repository is taken down, the data is not lost.

How could we use it?

  1. archive.is allow us to download a zip archive of any page we save (see this comment https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1569388/7648430))
  2. You should continue saving to archive.is.
  3. Then you download the zip file
  4. Then you put the zip file in your local pizzagate repository
  5. And you "push" (this is a GiT term) your changes to the main remote repository.
  6. A group of tech saavy people should be in charge of the main repository. (to moderate it and to keep the content well organized)

Of course we would need a nicely wrtiten tutorial to help non techy users to understand how to use GiT properly.

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voatsucksreally ago

This is another reason why I built citizeninvestigators.org evidence is being censored everywhere, and we have already lost so much information in the last couple of months. The site archives information people post by tags so that anyone can go back and find information related to any topic that's been discussed quickly and easily. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet.

TRUTHWARRIOR ago

The sandyhookjusticereport.com no longer exists due to threats made to wolfgang halbigs family. If your site is taken down, where goes the data?

gittttttttttttttttt ago

I tried telling the community archive.is was comprimised and one of the shill mods deleted it! I don't think the mod is still here. I already have a git repo going every day on a cron job of all voat posts: https://gitlab.com/pizzascraper/pizzagate-scraper

git clone https://gitlab.com/pizzascraper/pizzagate-scraper.git

Archive.is brought in cloudflare to block all external URL's from being archived which my bot was doing. I don't have the space or funds to backup all external URL's just voat URL's. All external URL's are going into a txt file though currently but that isn't good enough. Some person said they were going to send $100 bitcoin and never did. If someone wants to help me financially I will rent a VPS with more space to backup all external URL's as well. Just DM me.

Non tech users can download a full zip without cloning

https://gitlab.com/pizzascraper/pizzagate-scraper/repository/archive.zip?ref=master

If you have questions or suggestions let me know. A lot of what was mentioned in this post is already being done.

BarryOSeven ago

They blocked access to your git repositories on both URL's, can't clone them btw

BarryOSeven ago

Nice! Just read something about IPFS on Voat. It's a distributed web https://ipfs.io/ If we can push your archives to ipfs we're safe about the real valuable pieces.

After that we need to find a way to backup the youtube video's and other stuff.

We must get this information decentralized asap.

ThePizzaInvestigator ago

Gitlab(The public one) and Github won't work as they both will blindly follow any DMCA requests they receive.

amyrebeccajames ago

I heard that David Brock is connected to Bitcoin. Is that real?