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trompetenaccoun ◴[] 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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jdiff ◴[] No.41896411[source]
This seems to get brought at least once in the comments for every one of these articles that pops up.

The IA has tried distributing their stores, but nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are.

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WarOnPrivacy ◴[] No.41897206[source]
> nowhere near enough people actually put their storage where their mouths are.

Typically because most people who have the upload, don't know that they can. And if they come to the notion on their own, they won't know how.

If they put the notion to a search engine, the keywords they come up with probably don't return the needed ELI5 page.

As in: How do I [?] for the Internet Archive?, most folks won't know what [?] needs to be.

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TZubiri ◴[] No.41897342[source]
This is literally torrents. Just give up
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briandear ◴[] No.41897746[source]
The problem with torrents is they have a bad reputation since people use it to steal and redistribute other people’s content without their consent.
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card_zero ◴[] No.41897984{4}[source]
Is there any form of torrent where you can do a full text search? That, to me, is the more important problem with torrents.
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TZubiri ◴[] No.41898641{5}[source]
But internet archive doesn't do this? It's a key based search (url keys)
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card_zero ◴[] No.41900551{6}[source]
Internet archive allows full text search of books, newspapers, etc.. Or anyway it did, before being breached.
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TZubiri ◴[] No.41906380{7}[source]
It does transcribe books (through imperfect OCR) so I guess that's possible. Never relied on it as I search by title and author.

But anyways not the case for the wayback product which is the unique core to IA.

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1. card_zero ◴[] No.41907315{8}[source]
That's not unique, not a product, and not the part I use most.

Well, OK, maybe other webpage archives don't work as well, I haven't tried them, but there are others. And they're newer, so don't have such extensive historical pages.

Large numbers of Wikipedia references (which relied on IA to prevent link rot) must be completely broken now.