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I think that something like the internet archive β where the body of data is too large and important to store in one place β is where using a federated framework similar to Lemmy might make a lot of sense. Whatβs more, there are many different organisations which have the incentive to archive their own little slice of the internet (but not those of others), and a federated model would help in linking these up into one easily navigable, and inherently crowd-funded, whole.
Why federated and not just regular p2p?
Internet archive already supports torrents.
Forgive me because I'm not very familiar with the technology, but 99 petabytes (estimated size of the Internet Archive) seems like a little much for even a large network of home computers.
Don't get me wrong, decentralizing would be great, but I just don't understand how it would be done at this level, especially when, in the grand scheme of things, I don't think there's a whole lot of people who would pitch in.
Each person doesn't need to host everything.
The Internet archive already has torrents that get automatically created, you can right now go and download/seed torrents for some items and you are immediately doing your part in decentralizing the Internet archive.
99 petabytes is not that much really, my NAS has a quarter petabyte of storage, some of which I can spare. This is something that just a few thousand volunteers could manage realistically