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@deshipu Maybe you could at least post the license on your blog? A link to a nonexistent Mastodon post might not be very convincing evidence of a license a month from now, and think this didn't work: http://web.archive.org/web/20221121162226/https://fosstodon.org/@deshipu/109382687875897192
@deshipu Hmm, maybe it did work after all.
The archive.org snapshot of the Mastodon thread page does include various posts on the thread. Load progressively, but they load from archive.org and not fosstodon.org. Even the images in the posts load when I click through them.
But the images have URLs like http://web.archive.org/web/20221121163824/https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/109/382/431/776/270/224/original/a1353c764b25ebad.png. Note that the timestamp embedded in the URL is 16:38:24, while the timestamp in the URL of the original page is 16:22. This suggests that archive.org is archiving the image successfully, but only when my browser loads the archived page and requests the image. The archival only works if I go and click on all the things in the thread that need to be archived!
My initial suspicion, however, was that archive.org only archived the Mastodon SPA and not the posts, and the SPA was requesting the posts at view time *from the original Mastodon server*. And that would have been a completely unsuccessful archival; upon viewing years later, it could have even included new information added by a malicious Mastodon server at that time. Is not so.
Should have known @brewsterkahle's team was pretty on the ball when it comes to archiving Mastodon since they even run their own instance.