That's called Git and it's been around longer than GitHub. There is also Usenet which by now is mostly dead. People fell for centralized alternatives. Oops :)
The difficult part is not the software or even the hosting. It's more about the network effects and the ability to let users monetize uploads, which in turn creates vast potential for abuse and fraud, which in turn has to be addressed by burning stupendous resources. At a certain point people stop wanting exposure or "making a difference" for their own sake, and instead want to get paid in genuine coin of the realm.
This is a pretty crappy article, and the "35mm" in the title seems to refer to the lens angle being about the same as it is on most other phone cameras (i.e. moderate wideangle, comparable to 35mm focal length on old 35mm full frame film cameras). I had to read most of the article to understand that they were talking about a conventional phone camera with some accessories, and not a film camera built into a phone or anything like that.
See the existing posts there, I guess, or look at the reddit version. I agree that there's not much point in cross linking it unless there's a significant discussion thread for that post. But reddit got those sometimes.
Yeah I made c/savedyouaclick in the hope of getting people de-clickbaiting stories, but I was the only poster afaict. I wonder if calling it newssummararies could help.
The main value of youtube for many of us is the enormous video collection, which is impractical for anyone else to duplicate. Need to fix an old washing machine (I did, recently)? Type in the make and model and there's an instructional vid. It's unfortunate that Google has exclusive control over such a resource, but here we are.
50GB of flac = maybe 20GB of Vorbis amirite? Is that 450GB of flac in your screen shot? It would fit on a 256gb phone even without an SD card. A 512GB card is quite affordable these days. Just make sure to buy a phone with a slot, and think of it as next level degoogling ;).
Yeah I know there's lots of music in the world but who wants to listen to all of it on a moment's notice anyway?
Can't understand why this is interesting, as phones now have a lot of storage space, even the ones that don't have SD card slots. Just store the music that interests you directly on the phone.
I haven't looked in a few years but 20TB is probably plenty. I agree that Wikipedia lost its way once it got all that attention online and all that search traffic. Everyone should have their own copy of Wikipedia. I used to download the daily incremental data dumps but got tired of it. I still have a few TB of them around that I've been wanting to merge.
The text is in not-exactly-convenient database dumps (see other commenter's link) and there are daily diffs (mostly bot noise), but then there are the images and other media, which are way up in the terabytes by now. There are some docs, maybe out of date, about how to run the software yourself. It's written in PHP and it's big and complicated.
I use Thunderbird and hate it. Full of bugs and cramdowns (not sure what the right term is) where they make a bad setting that you can't undo. Also too difficult to find too many things. And way too many non-mail features. I haven't bothered seeking a good alternative but Thunderbird leaves a lot to be desired. Forking isn't likely to help much. It needs total replacement.
I don't even remember many times Firefox/Mozilla has changed its extension API and broken everyone's add-ons. It gets tiresome.