The Wayback Machine is run by tranny pedophiles

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It's a sad fact of the modern internet age that a lot of the people "fighting", heading up the movements, and developing for internet freedom, free and open source software, site archival, data privacy, the TOR project, etc. are pedo trannies and thus sure to betray everything they claim to care about the moment it's convenient. Frankly, people like Josh are an anomaly and not the norm. It's really no wonder the whole thing is going to hell in a hand-basket.

Ultimately, the only true way to archive what you think needs preserving is to do it yourself. Of course, no individual can do that for everything, and it was only a matter of time that big services like Wayback would be compromised, given their central nature. Not that I think decentralizing data across a blockchain would achieve long-term tangible results though I'm sure some bright-eyed crypto investors might get suckered out of their cash in the short term for such a dream, before the rug gets pulled out from under them.
 
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It's a sad fact of the modern internet age that a lot of the people "fighting", heading up the movements, and developing for internet freedom, free and open source software, site archival, data privacy, the TOR project, etc. are pedo trannies and thus sure to betray everything they claim to care about the moment it's convenient. Frankly, people like Josh are an anomaly and not the norm. It's really no wonder the whole thing is going to hell in a hand-basket.

Ultimately, the only true way to archive what you think needs preserving is to do it yourself. Of course, no individual can do that for everything, and it was only a matter of time that big services like Wayback would be compromised, given their central nature. Not that I think decentralizing data across a blockchain would achieve long-term tangible results though I'm sure some bright-eyed crypto investors might get suckered out of their cash in the short term for such a dream, before the rug gets pulled out from under them.
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I find it especially disheartening that the major players in the ActivityPub network had to come from such a group (or got taken over by such a group, not familiar with deep fedi lore).
 
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yosho said:
Seems like they do partial takedowns, too. When you search for snopes.com, archive.ph goes back to 2012:
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However, archive.org only goes back to late 2021:
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Am I supposed to believe that despite everything that happened between 1996 and 2020, the Wayback Machine didn't save a SINGLE copy of the front page?
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It appears this partial exclusion mechanism has been used to censor the archives of divested.dev, the site for DivestOS and its developer Tad Davanzo / Tavi / SkewedZeppelin. Normally a domain exclusion would give an explicit error, for example looking up kiwifarms.net says "Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine." Not the case for divested.dev, which suspiciously just has no archives when you look it up. Compare that to archive.ph, a service that doesn't censor, having plenty of archives for divested.dev.

Just to confirm, I tried to save a snapshot of divested.dev myself a couple days ago, and it let me, but the snapshot never showed up. I joined the Archiveteam IRC and a contributor ran Archivebot on divested.dev and opinionplatform.org (the site that I saw first document this censorship (a)) in the same bucket. The snapshots of opinionplatform.org showed up a couple days later but not the ones for divested.dev.

I'm not as paranoid as risen (the author of opinionplatform.org) who says that this means DivestOS isn't to be trusted, but it certainly raises suspicions and questions about what Tad Davanzo is trying to censor, and why. Moral of the story: Sometimes you can't easily tell if Wayback Machine archives have been censored.
 
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Crosspost. nitter.poast.org has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
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Captures of website nitter.poast.org (Twitter alt front-end) have been linked in this thread. Unfortunately, that site has been excluded from the Wayback Machine: https://archive.is/2025.03.09-095531/https://web.archive.org/web/2/http://nitter.poast.org (proof).
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People really need to be warned not to use Wayback. Hell, there's even a list of almost 2,000 censored URLs:
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine
 
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Markass the Worst said:
Crosspost. nitter.poast.org has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

People really need to be warned not to use Wayback. Hell, there's even a list of almost 2,000 censored URLs:
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine
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Interesting, because x.com itself is kind of excluded at the moment too (it doesn't say "excluded" like the nitter URL you quoted above)
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It looks like nitter was added today btw:
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edit: Domains and URLs can be requested to be excluded by the owner btw, so it could be the poast.org people themselves requested this? Or its gayops. Hard to know without more information.
 
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neger psykolog said:
Interesting, because x.com itself is kind of excluded at the moment too (it doesn't say "excluded" like the nitter URL you quoted above)
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It looks like nitter was added today btw:
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edit: Domains and URLs can be requested to be excluded by the owner btw, so it could be the poast.org people themselves requested this? Or its gayops. Hard to know without more information.
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yeah this sucks and is annoying
 
Odd. For about the last two weeks attempting to use nitter.poast on desktop was constantly returning 403 | Forbidden errors, so I quit using it in liue of others. Seeing this I decided to try it again, and it works now. Makes me wonder if the two are related.
 
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Id wager that nitter asked to be excluded rather than the other way around. Still gay for an archive site to even allow people to request removal of their domains
 
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Markass the Worst said:
People really need to be warned not to use Wayback.
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Does anybody here at this point anymore? I was put on notice years ago to never use Wayback for archiving on the Farms.

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Id wager that nitter asked to be excluded rather than the other way around. Still gay for an archive site to even allow people to request removal of their domains
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Nitter is not a unified thing. It's a distributable software tool that can be used to access and read X. There are many different Nitter instances now.

In the instant case I am actually wondering if Graf asked for nitter.poast to be excluded. I have seen a lot of Kiwis use it.

People using a Nitter instance to archive Xeets really switch consider switching to another one. I've been using xcancel.

Remember, there's bad blood between Null and Graf.
 
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I was browsing some 2000s animation blogs a while back and there was a link to one that was dead, so I entered it on Wayback and they blocked it for no reason?? Now I get that the IA likely is infested with overly sensitive faggots that will block a site like the Farms because they're "heckin problematic" but why an old blog??? Might I add most of their archives are pretty shitty so you'll often come across a snapshot that tries to redirect to different, dead url that hasn't been archived or a bunch of dead images and pages that weren't archived.
 
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It looks like nitter was added today btw:
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Very curiously, wrapped in two seemingly useless archiving services, the capture that person linked in their edit summary is this nitter mirror of a deleted 2015 tweet:
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Since this was pointed out in DarkViper's thread I think the person who added that to the wiki is probably the same poster.
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I was browsing some 2000s animation blogs a while back and there was a link to one that was dead, so I entered it on Wayback and they blocked it for no reason?? Now I get that the IA likely is infested with overly sensitive faggots that will block a site like the Farms because they're "heckin problematic" but why an old blog??? Might I add most of their archives are pretty shitty so you'll often come across a snapshot that tries to redirect to different, dead url that hasn't been archived or a bunch of dead images and pages that weren't archived.
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If it's a blog, that's because the person who owned it requested it be excluded.
 
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People really need to be warned not to use Wayback. Hell, there's even a list of almost 2,000 censored URLs:
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I have archive dot org so much its unreal
neger psykolog said:
Interesting, because x.com itself is kind of excluded at the moment too (it doesn't say "excluded" like the nitter URL you quoted above)
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Last time I had trouble using x dot com links, you could actually just paste the url and replace "x" with "twitter" and it would complete the archive. But that was like 8-10 months ago
 
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I was browsing some 2000s animation blogs a while back and there was a link to one that was dead, so I entered it on Wayback and they blocked it for no reason?? Now I get that the IA likely is infested with overly sensitive faggots that will block a site like the Farms because they're "heckin problematic" but why an old blog??? Might I add most of their archives are pretty shitty so you'll often come across a snapshot that tries to redirect to different, dead url that hasn't been archived or a bunch of dead images and pages that weren't archived.
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To reiterate: People themselves can & do request their own sites and own Twitter accounts to be blocked

Also: There are a bunch of nerds from what I recall that hate the internet archive for various ideological reasons or something

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If it's a blog, that's because the person who owned it requested it be excluded.
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You can even request it if you own a domain or subdomain or a twitter account.
It was one of people's misunderstanding about taytay (Taylor Lorenz) getting her Twitter account delisted on the IA: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/taylor-lorenz.117172/post-19727322
 
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neger psykolog said:
It looks like nitter was added today btw:
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=List_of_websites_excluded_from_the_Wayback_Machine&type=revision&diff=54574&oldid=54535 1741516800900.png

edit: Domains and URLs can be requested to be excluded by the owner btw, so it could be the poast.org people themselves requested this? Or its gayops. Hard to know without more information.
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That list isn't official. Its been that way for at least a couple of months now, but the wiki jannies only noticed today.
 
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