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@disaster2life @internetarchive Sadly, almost every major entity hates the Internet Archive these days not to mention that Automattic has a monopolized space.
Hate this move.
@disaster2life @internetarchive Well, there’s a tiny Small Web app that aims to do a similar thing for personal web sites, etc., that I made a little while ago:
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Yeah but it also looks like there was 0 critical thinking in this decision. No landscape review of options, no RFP or Q to solicit ideas from vendors, just a call from automattic to brewster and a "yes" on the other end. And IA *does* have control over that. If it went down any other way it'd be great to hear more publicly.