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is there a Datahoarders community yet? (self.main)

submitted 1 year ago by mjrossman to c/main

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besides just getting backups going of all the previous data troves that the subreddit have enumerated, I was wondering what the best resources are for databases of all local governments. currently, I've found these: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/max-mind/world-cities-database https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2020/econ/local/public-use-datasets.html

imho, there could be a much more unified global dataset of all publicly available IRL communities, feel free to sanity check this.

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[–] thirdorbital 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can search for existing communities using the community browser.

I'm not even certain what all "Datahording" entails but [email protected] appears to be one such community.

[–] mjrossman 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tl;dr is that it's a sort of citizen's distributed internet archive, with effectively the same ethos. and of course, data will readily drop off the internet (and remain privatized) if there are no informal enterprises that keep up the public work.

[–] thirdorbital 5 points 1 year ago

So just sort of "preserve the knowledge of mankind" sort of thing? Prevent society from having to re-invent the wheel? Sounds like an interesting challenge, best of luck with it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There is data_hoarder but it doesn't seem active or maybe just too new.

PS - The Lemmy Community Browser is helpful https://browse.feddit.de/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

ty need to link these to the AI communities.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes.

https://lemmyonline.com/c/[email protected]

Edit- Direct link: https://lemmy.ml/c/datahoarder