Libraries

Indeed those are good ideas. In fact it would be possible to solve the enshitification problem at the same time. If someone copy-pastes a whole article into their Lemmy post, then it solves the problem of getting the article out of Cloudflare jail (or other varieties of prisons and barriers).

There is a university that has its own small in-house archive. I forgot which uni. But the idea was that any papers or articles produced by students or profs at that university would naturally refer to outside docs. Of course it’s a problem when those outside references are unreachable. So the university archives everything referenced by in-house papers to ensure the integrity of the sources. Outsiders do not have the power to add a page to the archive.. only to browse the archives made by insiders. Every university should be doing this.

All this only covers articles though. There are lots of web resources that need to be archived. Ideally it should be integrated into the browser. Instead of fetching and throwing it away, browsers could keep a local archive. From there, it’s a matter of getting the browsers talking to each other over Tor. Perhaps using IPFS (something I’ve been putting off looking into but seems to be part of the answer).