There’s an entire industry that harvests content from archive.org for modern ad spam
It’ll follow the enshitification path of every other big-tech site, give it time.
If you can’t wait, https://gitea.com/
Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an unencrypted state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.
Oh the FBI just happened to visit when they unencrypted the database? How convenient!
FBI claiming it’s for non-Mastodon related reasons, but that could be a cover. https://kolektiva.social is still up
Regardless, I don’t think they even have to ask to get this sort of data from any of the big platforms.
this game already came out a long time ago