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492 points vladyslavfox | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 15:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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trompetenaccoun ◴[20 Oct 24 15:33 UTC] No.41895988[source]▶
We need archives built on decentralized storage. Don't get me wrong, I really like and support the work Internet Archive is doing, but preserving history is too important to entrust it solely to singular entities, which means singular points of failure.
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__MatrixMan__ ◴[20 Oct 24 18:31 UTC] No.41897459[source]▶
To make the web distributed-archive-friendly I think we need to start referencing things by hash and not by a path which some server has implied it will serve consistently but which actually shows you different data at different times for a million different reasons.

If different data always gets a different reference, it's easy to know if you have enough backups of it. If the same name gets you a pile of snapshots taken under different conditions, it's hard to be sure which of those are the thing that we'd want to back up for that particular name.

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Cheer2171 ◴[20 Oct 24 19:42 UTC] No.41897960[source]▶
Done. It is called IPFS. The IA already supports it.

https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive/blob/master/...

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1. Groxx ◴[20 Oct 24 21:12 UTC] No.41898515[source]▶
Which has a rather lengthy section explaining why it's currently a failed experiment: https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive/blob/master/...

(this doc is 5-6 years old though, and I'm not sure what may have changed since then)

In my own (toy-scale) IPFS experiments a couple years ago it has been rather usable, but also the software has been utterly insane for operators and users, and if I were IA I would only consider it if I budgeted for a from-scratch rewrite (of the stuff in use). Nearly uncontrollable and unintrospectable and high resource use for no apparent reason.