Do it.

DEFINITELY do it! It's the opposite of dumb!

Yeah, I'm real torn. On one hand, I immediately want to scrape this site, but I also don't want to beat the site up tying up their bandwidth. There seems to be a parent site db4p.org thats managing mirrors of this site, but I don't see any sort of torrent or archive. If there's something like that, I'd be very inclined to just archive the entire site/database.

Just put the feed in its own community, then yeah. Go for it.

wait is that website a fediverse instance actually?

also if you do mirror it, make sure to do it in an efficient way. for example, some websites offer one large download to archive the whole site, like wikipedia. is less strain on the server than scraping each page individually.

There’s a kernel of a good idea there but I’m not sure how the actual format of that would work out…