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- Apr 11, 2019
Since it isn't too unlikely that the trannies will successfully harass archive.ph into removing the records they have on Keffals,what is the next best alternative to it?
Conifer is a pretty great web archiving service, though it's fairly different from archive.ph. Instead of being a completely anonymous box that you just drop URLs into, you make a free account and then start a webrecorder session through their site (or with a separate desktop app if you want). Then you just browse to the shit you want to archive and it'll capture it as you go. It only captures stuff you visit through the site/app, so like it won't record the Kiwi Farms shitposts you're making in another tab while you're using it to archive a lolcow's Twitter or whatever.There isn't one. It's literally the only site doing what it does in a competent manner.
You can even use it to archive websites that require a login, though your login request will get captured too, so you'll want to go back and delete that part of the capture when you're done if you're going to share it. You'll also want to use a throwaway account since (depending on the site) there may still be some lingering data about your user session that people could use to jack your shit, and while you can sanitize the capture to remove it you'd really need to know what you're doing to safely remove it all. Still, it's pretty rad to be able to capture shit that archive.ph simply can't.
Your captures get saved as named collections, and when you start a new capture you can create a new collection or add it to an existing one. So if you wanted to keep a rolling archive of a lolcow's tweets you could make a collection for them, then use Conifer to passively archive everything whenever you decide to scroll through their Twitter. Collections are private by default, but you can share them publicly, and you can also download your recorded sessions in standard
warc
format so they can be used with any tools that support standard web archive playback. So even if trannies somehow manage to crybully them into removing your shit, you can have a backup copy ready to upload here or wherever.Last but not least the underlying software is completely open source, so even if the website starts folding to angry troon emails, there's literally nothing stopping Josh or another enterprising autist from running their own Conifer instance where people can archive whatever they want.