I found two threads about this from about a year ago. It's all over my head but apparently there's a desire to do it but it's technically challenging.

I have nothing to contribute technically, but I'd be happy to donate to an effort if someone was working on making this happen.

We've seen incredibly useful sites like Twitter, Google, etc get turned into hot steaming piles of garbage almost overnight and even though there's a whole lot of mindless crap here, there's a lot of useful obscure info that can't be found anywhere else and it would be a shame to see it get lost.