34 (mainly non–core Anglosphere newspapers) of the 121 platforms TWL can give you access to require an application. The rest you can access automatically, instantaneously right now as long as you meet the stats.

I mentioned that this (only) solves one (of two) major problems archive.today was used to solve: paywalls. This is also very workable; you already have major newspapers like Haaretz and WSJ available on TWL.

I also mentioned that the backcatalogue problem can be solved by running a different archiving service on the existing archive.today URLs we use.

I am an active editor lol. I’m saying that the proposal is to establish something similar to TWL for media URLs. It would serve the same purpose for editors as a major complaint in the discussion was over addition of Archive.today links to bypass paywalls. Obviously developing this deal would take a lot of work but it is workable.

You must first apply to gain access.

That’s not true. Anyone who meets the stats you mentioned may access TWL.

the WML does not host any of these publications

Indeed, that’s what makes it legally sound and prevents us from needing to relicense. We don’t need to license the content to copyleft for the thing to work.

The Wikimedia project gets to host verbatim third-party news articles? This is creative but completely unrealistic

It would be just like the extant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library.

In the worst case we could just run Megalodon on all the archive.today URLs

No, you do not need real time chat, you need searchable, permanent presence

why not both? Discourse is really nice but it’s a forum, not IRC or Matrix

I disagree, but we’ll see what they do with it

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005292701-How-to-Access-an-Age-Restricted-Server-FAQ clarifies that Discord would only do that for servers that otherwise violate the Community Guidelines’s provisions on adult content, whose only mention of which I quoted above.

Server owners must apply an age-restricted label to any channels that contain sexually explicit content involving adults or content involving adults that is shared solely for the purposes of sexual gratification.

nothing else needs to be age-restricted, and age restriction of topics you mentioned would be big news for discord. pluralkit’s home is discord and has great influence there, and the lgbtq+ community definitely has a larger presence than the plural community

only changes for the unverified:

• Channels, servers, and commands set to age-restricted will be inaccessible
• DM requests deemed “sensitive” will be inaccessible
• “Sensitive content” will be blurred
• Won’t be able to become a speaker in “stage” channels, a special type where a few videoconferencers have a meeting where anyone else can watch and type but not videoconference; verified watchers can be invited to speak
• DMs from unfamiliar users will be routed to a separate “warning”

nothing else

I think this is business as usual…

None of these are the same thing. ICE List is a wiki, all the others are crowdsourced reports. This one is:

icemap aggregates both unstructured and structured data from a multitude of public online sources, then distills these data into useful news streams and figures. Currently, this vizualization pulls statistics and articles from ICE newsroom reports, TRAC immigration data, as well as a myriad of local and national news sources.

There’s no problem with decentralization if the data used is all the same. In fact, it provides for a credible exit.