Backing up the data - Some thoughts
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2025 6:05 pm
I am sure we can all agree on the importance of preserving data, especially something as relevant and hated by "the powers that be" as holocaust revisionism. So that's why I want to spark up a discussion on key issues & suggestions for backups.
Archive.org
First off, archive.org. Relying on such a flimsy website held together by tape isn't a very good idea, and it's used a lot to host a variety of revisionist content like books, documentaries and webpages (via wayback machine).
Apparently, they lost lawsuits that were enough to bankrupt them many times over, and they've been down for quite a while in the past. Don't even know how they're still up.
Some material on this issue:
(Yes, I do watch this Jew Lunduke for tech news every once in a while. Seems to be a Matt Walsh 'cuckservative' "Do anything, just don't hurt our kids" type.)
youtu.be/az6y2vxKmhc
youtu.be/DZq-eplpWfQ
Even if they stay up, there is no way to know for how much longer they'll allow this content to be hosted there. A lot of things could happen to it, they could be DDosed by activist groups if the content gets too popular, remove it out of their own volition, or even be emailed by impersonators claiming that the content violates their copyright, and they might comply since the website seems to be super mismanaged.
Video hosting websites
Now, addressing some video hosting websites:
I know many of you are doing this already, but I strongly recommend that everyone builds up their own "personal library" of files. Use a HDD since it has unlimited read/writes and the data can be recovered even if it breaks, or use a separate SSD from the one your system is installed in (they break down due to their limited writes, so if you just write the data on it once it should last for a long time).
Normal users can do things like just downloading videos with the context menu (Right click) / download button and save important pages with print to pdf.
Intermediate users can use yt-dlp to scrape videos automatically (initially made to be used on Youtube, supports all kinds of video hosting websites now) from websites and advanced users can even scrape entire domains with tools like wget.
Distribution & preservation through the internet
The stuff I wrote at the beginning isn't to say that we don't use these websites, but that we don't only use these websites. Every file should have at the very least two links in case one goes down, and it might even be possible to use platforms like Google Drive to store files, but with the files stored as encrypted archives. Another tool that would be really useful is torrents, which would allow decentralized sharing of files. It might be dangerous to use in places where "Holocaust Denial" is illegal though.
These are my thoughts on archival. Any other tips/ideas/warnings?
Archive.org
First off, archive.org. Relying on such a flimsy website held together by tape isn't a very good idea, and it's used a lot to host a variety of revisionist content like books, documentaries and webpages (via wayback machine).
Apparently, they lost lawsuits that were enough to bankrupt them many times over, and they've been down for quite a while in the past. Don't even know how they're still up.
Some material on this issue:
(Yes, I do watch this Jew Lunduke for tech news every once in a while. Seems to be a Matt Walsh 'cuckservative' "Do anything, just don't hurt our kids" type.)
youtu.be/az6y2vxKmhc
youtu.be/DZq-eplpWfQ
Even if they stay up, there is no way to know for how much longer they'll allow this content to be hosted there. A lot of things could happen to it, they could be DDosed by activist groups if the content gets too popular, remove it out of their own volition, or even be emailed by impersonators claiming that the content violates their copyright, and they might comply since the website seems to be super mismanaged.
Video hosting websites
Now, addressing some video hosting websites:
- Youtube, obviously cannot be trusted for archiving content questioning the orthodox Holocaust narrative, but every once in a while something flies under the radar. It's easily one of the worst websites censorship wise, seemingly normal comments get shadow banned with no warning, as well as the most annoying to download stuff, I will list some tools for downloading YT vids later.
- Odysee seems to be slightly better censorship wise, but I still wouldn't use it. More of a "Normie Alternative" to YT.
- Rumble is better than these last 2, but it's banned in various countries including mine. I can only access it through TOR currently.
- Bitchute might be a reasonable alternative as well, but it seems you have to pay to host videos there. And it looks like they're going through a weird "civil rights" rebranding, which is strange considering their audience. I also found that some videos on the holocaust disappeared from there, I don't know if it's because the owner of the channel stopped paying or they actually got censored.
- There's also this "AltCensored" whose existence I learned only after checking out this "reccomended material" thread. I don't really know much about it.
I know many of you are doing this already, but I strongly recommend that everyone builds up their own "personal library" of files. Use a HDD since it has unlimited read/writes and the data can be recovered even if it breaks, or use a separate SSD from the one your system is installed in (they break down due to their limited writes, so if you just write the data on it once it should last for a long time).
Normal users can do things like just downloading videos with the context menu (Right click) / download button and save important pages with print to pdf.
Intermediate users can use yt-dlp to scrape videos automatically (initially made to be used on Youtube, supports all kinds of video hosting websites now) from websites and advanced users can even scrape entire domains with tools like wget.
Distribution & preservation through the internet
The stuff I wrote at the beginning isn't to say that we don't use these websites, but that we don't only use these websites. Every file should have at the very least two links in case one goes down, and it might even be possible to use platforms like Google Drive to store files, but with the files stored as encrypted archives. Another tool that would be really useful is torrents, which would allow decentralized sharing of files. It might be dangerous to use in places where "Holocaust Denial" is illegal though.
These are my thoughts on archival. Any other tips/ideas/warnings?