> probably wouldn't use these very specific words with hyphen -
Most search boxes (Pleroma's included) do what is called "stemming", so the words get much less specific, and usually normalizing the query removes the hyphen. You can play with it if you have Postgres laying around somewhere:
@p@coolboymew Interesting that Postgres does this, I guess it's a part of how search still works for normies who tend to write whole human-style questions at search engines instead of something closer to someone using grep via short keywords.
@lanodan@coolboymew@p A lot of the archive sites are either cloudflared (with no way to complete the captchas I’ve ever found), or constantly changing URLs. I really see no value to be had in going through the trouble for a site that bans Tor for stupid reasons anyway.
@anonymous@coolboymew@lanodan Yeah, using Tor to scrape but refusing to allow Tor traffic kind of belies a belief that Tor is shady somehow...but then they use it themselves.
@thendrix@lanodan@p@coolboymew It’s good to know but if I don’t find something I can simply fall back to my original “couldn’t give a fuck less” position.
A lot of “archive” sites are removing content these days. Save anything you like yourself.
That large website was for a graphics reverse engineering blog, so it’s an outlier for sure. Normally they’re small and single file that loads as offline website is handy.
@thendrix@anonymous@p@coolboymew That's not really politics, you can get your stuff removed from sites, there's laws about this in basically every jurisdiction on earth.
@lanodan@anonymous@p@coolboymew@thendrix they will only remove things from archive.org based on completely opaque, arbitrary and political process. I asked for SPC to be removed and they simply ignored my request.
@lanodan@thendrix@anonymous@coolboymew In this case, it was a journalist, famous for doxing people, having someone *else's* dox removed, from a site she did not own.
I got the impression from Archive.org's response that they mainly didn't want to be in the middle of a fight.
@p@anonymous@coolboymew@thendrix Which is fair, this is the kind of shit that can get you in serious trouble with side-effects like getting your servers seized because everyone wants to act like cowboys about it, specially governments.
And I'd say that anyone which has a server online with any kind of moderation/curation/… effectively engages in a political process, SPC and FSE for example definitely do, and not all of it is transparent, doesn't have to be The Big Bad.
@lanodan@anonymous@p@coolboymew@thendrix one fediverse server was taken down to protect the precious precious trans people, nobody else ranks except apparently the very rich (this is what taylor lorenz's family is trying to hide by getting her removed from sites, the fact that she's from a rich politically connected family and got airdropped into an elite journalism job) that is pretty damn political.
On the other hand, what I see is people drawing massive conclusions based on single cases, if archive.org would remove nothing they'd be dead, if archive.org would have full-transparency, they'd probably also be dead (specially if it's a list of illegal content, or because it would require a lot more administrative work than they can handle).
You admit to not even knowing anything about the subject then try to bend it to your view of the world. Yes, attack me an reality to avoid having to face it. You won’t win.
You have no idea how deep the government reach is into digital media, or your lying about. Either way that seems like a losing hand to hold. It’s more than just big tech and MSM. If anything you defeat yourself.
@thendrix You think I give a shit about WaPo? You think if I deny anything you say, I'm of course arguing for whatever other camp of the day that you personally hate?
I just replied that you were full of shit when you wanted to “push back” to my post. Don’t be factually incorrect and talk about subjects you don’t even know if you don’t want to be called out.
You are the one that had to white knight for people like WaPo trash and their network. :shrugz:
Well, yeah, in the sense that it involves reconciling a course of action between people with conflicting views, but when saying that the process is political, this is, I think, to say that broader politics affect the internal actions. It's the difference between having to manage waste versus operating a waste management company: FSE exists in part due to beliefs I hold (I'd say philosophical rather than political, your mileage may vary), and actions I undertake are intended to be in line with those beliefs. This is different from FSE being subject to political ambitions or being used as a means to a political end, which I think it's safe to say is the purpose of, e.g., Spinster or Nice Crew Dot Digital. I don't mean to speak for Moon but I think it's reasonable to say that FSE and SPC are more similar in that sense than either is like Spinster (which is why the creator of that site has declared that FSE hasn't achieved anything). So some sites are subject to political whims, there's a broader goal; FSE's goal is the continued operation of FSE.
@p@anonymous@lanodan@coolboymew@thendrix I will dial it back slightly and say I think what Lanodan means is they are responding pragmatically to what causes them the most pain but I am saying in practice it benefits certain people and not others along fairly clear (to me) political lines.
@Moon@anonymous@p@coolboymew@thendrix Which is the default state, sites who don't end up being shut-down and they are rather infamous for being more or less pirates/out-of-line, which is at pure odds with the goals of a site like archive.org which needs to survive for the longest time possible.
While claiming something is political ought to be for partisan ones like spinster.