Comment by 🧇 Acidus

=> Re: "Archive of Drew Devault's gemini-exclusive posts" | In: s/Geminispace

Shameless plug: Drew's capsule going down is exactly why I made Delorean, the Wayback machine for Geminispace.

I have 27 snapshots of his capsule, between 2020 and 2022. For his homepage, there are 10 unique copies:

=> — kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/history?gemini%3a%2f%2fdrewdevault.com%2f

=> 🧇 Acidus

Jan 13 · 6 days ago

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=> 🎵 hedy [OP] · Jan 13 at 01:23:

that's awesome @Acidus, wish I'd known about this the first time I tried archiving his posts, haha

=> 🧇 Acidus · Jan 13 at 14:37:

Building that archive is a ton of fun. Over 1 million distinct URLs are captured, from 3743 capsules, many like Drew's which no longer exist. There are 10.5 Million captures, with the earliest content captured on May 13th 2020. And with some clever deduplication and compression, the archive is only ~43 GB.

gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/stats

In fact, the stats page for Delorean is actually archived in Delorean, so you can see how the size and duplication rate have changed over time:

gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/archive/history?gemini%3A%2F%2Fkennedy.gemi.dev%2Farchive%2Fstats

I need to find ways to make this content more discoverable. Perhaps a feed of "Dead Capsules" ?

Original Post

=> 🌒 s/Geminispace

Archive of Drew Devault's gemini-exclusive posts — I've set up an archive for Drew Devault's gemini-only posts: [gemini link] [https link] some time last year I've had to the need to reference one of his gemini posts elsewhere online only to find that he's completely shutdown his capsule and left geminispace. So I sourced his gemini content from the git repo (from before they were removed from git) and have set up an archive on my website, but I've had to move between providers at some point,...

=> 💬 hedy · 6 comments · Jan 12 · 7 days ago