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?
- archive.is allow us to download a zip archive of any page we save (see this comment https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1569388/7648430))
- You should continue saving to archive.is.
- Then you download the zip file
- Then you put the zip file in your local pizzagate repository
- And you "push" (this is a GiT term) your changes to the main remote repository.
- 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.
Your thoughts?
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lawexaminer ago
Look at how wikileaks deals with this problem: http://wikileaks.openanthropology.org/Mirrors.html
The investigation needs to do the same - employ a mirrored backup system.
newworldahead ago
Yes, this is great. Thanks for sharing that. I think in our case it's the GiT repository itself that should be mirrored on different servers. This would be much better than asking Voat users to keep an up-to-date copy of the repository on their own computer.
lawexaminer ago
Seafile is a GIT based file syncing application https://www.seafile.com/