Two months ago, I made this post:
https://lemmy.world/post/50855395
In this community, about potentially either “colonizing”, or forking Squidgeworld Archive (alternative to the fanfiction site ao3).
Apparently, ao3 has recently shut-down for 2-4 weeks:
https://www.404media.co/archive-of-our-own-ao3-down-maintenance/
https://nerdist.com/article/ao3-archive-of-our-own-down-for-two-to-four-weeks/
My question is: Should we consider potentially making a Fediverse alternative to Ao3 / SqWA?
If you head over to the Squidgeworld Archive website, it states that over 2,300+ ao3 users have already migrated over to SqWA from ao3.
(Now it’s over 12,000+ in the last 20 hours ALONE.)
Just imagine how many people could potentially be brought into the Fediverse, if there were a working federated alternative version of ao3 / SqWA.
Or if Fediverse users, instead of creating an alternative, instead commited to “colonising” SqWA, instead.
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AO3 says it’s going to be down for maintenance for a few weeks I wish it was already federated to avoid those kinds of downtimes.
I’m building a federated archive too.
Are there people who would want to run a project like that? I think there’s no harm in giving it a shot, but I’ve never personally been interested in the work of running or moderating an archive. Anything bigger than a niche website for a specific character seems overwhelming.
Would something like Ourchive possibly work?
I was browsing various different ao3 alternative sites, and I stumbled upon Ourchive.gay
Which is apparently a decentralized alternative to Ao3.
Plus, they use Mastodon
