Archive.org now "fact checks" archived sites
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The problem is that each serves a somewhat different role.
Archive.org doesn't just archive sites on demand like archive.is, they also crawl the web archiving them. While some information obviously needs to be archived on the spot, there is plenty of stuff that slips through the cracks and doesn't get archived on archive.is but does get archived on archive.org that could be important later. And they have archives dating back to the 90s, long before archive.is existed.
And now it's controlled by leftist ideologues.
Everything that used to be controlled by nominal libertarians is now controlled by leftist ideologues. It's a black mark on my beloved tech industry and one reason why I no longer consider myself a libertarian.
is it possible to archive.is archive.org pages?
Generally yes. It’s even possible to download WARC archive containers from archive.org, so theoretically someone could grab a portion of the archive for more reliable storage.
It’s actually very easy to do, just not easy to do at scale.