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why do they call it cohost when you co post in the post co host host the post?

You can run an Archive Team container on your computer! It'll help crawl the web and putting stuff into archive.org, based on the current projects.

You don't have to be super technical to do this, but a little computer skill will help you out.

Walkthrough below the cut (tl;dr docker compose + this config, or a vm from here):

also it's using links fetched from other archived public webpages (as opposed to guessing all imgur urls), so its less likely to pick up anyone's secret images they don't wish to be archived

if you missed it, imgur got bought out and announced that they'll be deleting old images and also any NSFW content starting May 15

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EDIT: if you feel adventurous and want to spin up some freebie cloud machines to do more archival, here's some free trials from cloud providers:

• Google Cloud trial with $300 of credits
• DigitalOcean trial with $200 of credits
• Azure trial with $200 of credits

(not affiliated, just want to enable you to go make a bunch of extra archivers if you want)

we've got three Settings for asks:

• on or off
• allow anons
• require anons to be logged in

the third setting is one missing from other ask platforms (tumblr, retrospring, etc) and provides the use case of "anons available for users who are shy/would prefer to stay on anon, but preventing the sort of drive-by harassment that can come from just opening an incognito window." also means you can block specific anons¹.

also: everything is opt-in. once we ship asks, you'll have to go in and enable them so that you don't just start Getting Messages. anons are also off by default, and requiring logged in anons is on by default, but they're all in the same settings for so it doesn't really matter that much overall.

this is all coming together, but it won't ship for a little bit b/c it needs UI and aidan's out of office for the next few days. hoping it have it all set next week.

1. we're gonna try doing this in a way where you can block an anon from sending asks, but it's a different type of block from a Full Block so that you can't use it to unmask who sent an anon. tricky to handle, but i remember the era of tumblr where you could Do That and it caused more harm than good. so avoiding doing that here.

me: man i am so tired of seeing this specific post *remembers that the silence post button exists* whoever implemented this is such a sexy genius, maybe the sexiest genius of all time