They waver between flighty utopian idealism and arrogance and self-justifying activism.
It’s getting old. For every “practical” use of the IA, there are just as many concerns.
No one really needs the old internet or all the old Geocities website and first design interactions or personal blogs. There’s no market for it and no one would pay for it.
If these folks had to hand-copy items or make photocopies, they would have quit a decade ago.
They use scraping and cheap hardware to “brag” about their massive knowledge base in the petabytes. Honestly, no one cares.
Outside of the circles of other digital borders and some tech circles, everyone else is playing with their kids, mowing their lawns, reading books, and such. Try to get your neigbor to go look at an IA website from 1996. They’ll just go watch Netflix instead.