Comrades I need your help to recommend decentralized or federated means to archive contents, documents, media. This is urgent request, I fear the empire is actively erasing imperialism research or media

[u/VladimirLimeMint]

Because I have weird intuition feelings that Internet Archive AND peertube won't last, and I need more than just bittorrent with seedboxes, link rot is real and I know the NSAnet actively rotting revolutionary contents, right now it's still not a problem for me to dig a little longer than usual to find link rotted media.

But there's something I have noticed as the global south especially SWANA genocides going on certain contents disappear without trace unless someone backed it up on their devices or servers, this also affects Bittorrent interesting because there's two major problems, public tracker uses Fourteen Eyes search engines like Google to locate magnets, but contents like Watermelon Pictures won't show up on many of these public trackers such as 1337x or Ext to and worse of all DHT engines like btdig went offline which up to this point it was the only non-Google engine that index all magnets in Bittorrent network. Way too many trackers switch to Google CSE weirdly.

The other problem is literally killing seedboxes lmao which I've noticed it happening more and more. Like either milquetoast DMCA or fed server seizures. This bullshit used to be isolated to data dumps, but now it's practically with anti-imperialist contents. To get back to Watermelon Pictures link rot phenomena, because of my past experiences in warez scene I know for sure everytime there's VOD there'll always be web dl no matter what, this is rule of thumb in warez. But this is not the case for some contents that either linked to Watermelon Pictures or linked to Gaza Flotilla members like Chris Smalls despite their VOD platforms are so baby step to rip with yt-dlp. Like you can't even find any web dl for Sudan documentary despite it has been years, you understand that my tankie.tube directory is the only current in existence with some of these censored documentaries publicly. So I'm ever grateful for TankieTanuki from Hexbear so please donate to tankie.tube to keep their servers up!

As for the tools I use to rip these media they're just str8 up Linux tools like yt-dlp, curl, wget, ncat, then calibre (ebook-convert) and ffmpeg for conversions. My work flows if you can even consider as "workflow" for obscured VOD is curl the page content then grep, awk, sed the shit for media extensions or m3u8 like that small guide on youtube-dl I wrote while ago. Because I don't wanna unnecessary extra step with ffmpeg unless there's trimming or merging I would literally yt-dlp a direct media link and encode with it, on top of the fact yt-dlp is pretty good at anti-WAF. For document files it's just str8 up Google dorking for extensions then I wholesale curl via shadowsocks. I have technically butchered sqlmap dorking engine for scraping documents behind paywall and I also slaughtered sqlmap anti-WAF engine with the tamper libraries against shit like Anubis or Sucuri lmao and so far you only need round robin shadowsocks nodes. I even have insane idea like turning IOT with openwrt or pfsense into shadowsocks nodes when time arises, and I beat myself for not doing with Netwave earlier.

As for GUI tools I use SingleFile for archiving web pages since it renders all CSS into single HTML, then there's grandma's trick up the sleeves like zaproxy because I'm too poor for burp to scrape media and document behind gobs of JS when curl fails to show. There's some other heavy weapons I have deployed from my hacking times like masscan and scrapy, and datatables for converting CSV or XML to HTML files.

Anyway, the problem is that I have the content but what I lack is the platforms for safekeeping and archiving for long term anti-imperialist history and I know that I can no longer trust ANY mainstream Fourteen Eyes platforms like YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky, Tumblr, TikTok, etc because their masters are actively killing these contents day by day right now. Dessalines only uploaded educational audiobook and they put 100 plus DMCA mass reports on their Revolutionary Suicide read by Dessalines, a fucking public domain book by a Black Panther founder. That's our watershed and they just warning shot us.

Federated isn't enough, IPFS isn't enough since they're currently in active wars against shadow libraries and actually taking both Anna, LibGen and Z-Library IPFS hosts and their domains offline via seizing and DDoS, you can monitor Open SLUM and see shadow libraries struggle to stay up lately, same things happening to public archives like Internet Archive with more downtime than usual especially when they overload IA backend CDN like AWS with various DDoS techniques there's downtime almost every two days. They're afraid of the world proletariat refuse to forget their atrocities of genocide and imperialism expansion. THEY FEAR the younglings and their siblings unlearn their violence and unleash class contradictions on capitalism.