anyway, i’m sorry for beating on @DashEquals, it’s really not his fault that the entire stack is utterly broken, and ArchiveTeam is not doing anything they aren’t otherwise allowed to do by the technology in question.
but at the same time, i do believe that archive team is being impolite here.
i would suggest that instead of attempting to archive all instances they deem “at risk of dying,” that they instead concentrate on situations where users from those instances request the instance be archived as a backup (including disclosure of who requested the archive, showing they really were from the instance)
even better, they could write a fediverse bot that queues the archival job.
while not perfect, this compromise would at least introduce some accountability until users have better control over what is really public or not.
right now, many people make things public because the stack is broken and forces posts to either be completely public or followers-only, there’s no middle ground.