Since the original is deleted, here is the old glorious lore. 💩

  • Nate
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    12 days ago

    Archive.org replaces all links with their own site so you don’t click a link and get directed to a non-existent page. I’d bet that after they do this lemmy’s JavaScript renders the UI, but the domains have all changed to web.archive.org/instance, so in the UI’s mind everyone is from web.archive.org