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1. cthos 🐱 Mastodon 2 min later

   @zachleat https://kiwix.org/en/ perhaps?

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 7 min later

      @cthos new one to me, thanks!

2. Rich Holman Bluesky 27 min later

   LexisNexis? But that’s sector specific to legal. Science as well, peer review as a non organisational based system.

3. Ramón Corominas Mastodon 1 hr later

   @zachleat SciHub, maybe the Guttemberg project...

4. TunafishTiger Mastodon 3 hr later

   @zachleat public library

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 4 hr later

      @tunafishtiger hell yeah

5. Tony — dreams Bluesky 8 hr later
6. Mark Bluesky 1 day later

   OpenStreetMap and Common Crawl belong on that list. OSM organized the world's spatial data into something openly queryable. Common Crawl quietly built the web archive that powers most LLM training. Both run on shoestring budgets and ship a public good.

7. mausmalone Mastodon 1 day later

   @zachleat weirdly, Fandom does a better job at this than Google these days.