Had this thought the other day and tbh it’s horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha
Had this thought the other day and tbh it’s horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha
Huh? The public can store data on IA just fine. I’ve uploaded dozens of public-domain books there.
But all the data is on IA’s servers. In the event their servers go down for good, that’s it. There’s no way to self host parts of the Archive fediverse style.
That’s true, but organising and managing such a distributed form of IA would probably be a nightmare of a job. I’ve seen many people suggest that to IA, but they seem to be very very reluctant about the idea.
Distributed systems have come a long way. It would be possible