Are there any alternatives to the Internet Archive that are built around P2P, so that everyone can contribute to hosting/sharing web archives? Seems like having all these important archives hosted by a single organization isn’t the best idea for longevity/redundancy

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  • CameronDev@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    There was a ActivityPub wiki clone, no idea where it got to.

    The major upside of IA being built and owned by one central company is trust. We can (so far at least, if I’m wrong please correct me) trust IA to not censor/rewrite history. As soon as every man and his dog can contribute, that gets a lot harder to guarantee.

    Edit: https://github.com/Nutomic/ibis

    Don’t take me linking it as endorsement, I think federated wiki’s for anything other than fandom stuff to be madness.

    • Sem@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Sounds like a potential application for a blockchain techs, that allows to do verifications, voting and consensus.

  • frank87@feddit.nlNederlands
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    1 month ago

    You can store stuff in the IPFS. But probably, someone has to build some archiving tool around it. But you would be vulnerable to copyright claims.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      This is what i never understand about attempts at P2P hosting of copyright content. It only works BECAUSE its obscure and irrelevant. As soon as it gets popular, all of these people and their VPN providers would get crushed by lawsuits.

      Dont get me wrong i love P2P tech, but it will never solve these issues unless the laws are fixed.