I’m not sure how practical/sustainable of a project this would be, but I feel that it could possibly be a useful project in the future if instances begin to purge old content due to storage constaints. The archiving service could store all the data using Object storage to archive it in read only. That way, at least people can still view old content in the possible scenario of rampant data loss across the Fediverse.
anyone doing that would risk a visit from law enforcement very quickly. There’s some vile stuff in the Fediverse.
How does archive.org manage this?
They remove illegal content as soon as they notice it and have staff and a legal team to deal with law enforcement agencies.