Would you trust a public archive more if its entire history lived in Git?

I’m building HUMANITY.TXT, a tiny public archive where each person leaves one numbered line. A fair criticism was: why trust a database owned by one site?

I’m considering making durability explicit:

• every accepted line appended to a public Git repository

• every change timestamped in commit history

• independent mirrors can reproduce /humanity.txt

• moderation never silently rewrites history; removals become tombstones

The real question: would this increase trust, or just add technical theater? For a public archive meant to outlive its interface, what would you require—Git history, signed releases, multiple mirrors, or something else?

https://humanitytxt.com/humanity.txt