Not many people can mirror what is probably a couple of petabytes.
And ensuring preservation and availability across unreliable nodes is pretty difficult, requires considerable redundancy. How many people are willing to do that especially when it’s legally difficult?
edit: and how many people would keep their mirrors up when FBI/Europol start cracking down on people hosting mirrors.
edit: There seems to have been an effort to decentralize internetarchive on dweb. But I’m not sure how serious dweb is, it seems to have been a vehicle to promote crypto (the blockchain kind) at least in part.
I also found out that KDE (the linux desktop) is funded by big meat (Tönnies), through Blue Systems. They sponsor dweb too. Just random aside.
Essentially the same built-in problems that crypto has. The model works for blogging, like twitter and reddit clones. It’s just not the right set up for frequent requests or a huge amount of storage.
That being said, I hope a few of the mirrors are exploiting the current geo-political climate. Canada may eventually fold, but a server in Russia or China ought to be well enough removed.
Not many people can mirror what is probably a couple of petabytes.
And ensuring preservation and availability across unreliable nodes is pretty difficult, requires considerable redundancy. How many people are willing to do that especially when it’s legally difficult?
edit: and how many people would keep their mirrors up when FBI/Europol start cracking down on people hosting mirrors.
edit: There seems to have been an effort to decentralize internetarchive on dweb. But I’m not sure how serious dweb is, it seems to have been a vehicle to promote crypto (the blockchain kind) at least in part.
I also found out that KDE (the linux desktop) is funded by big meat (Tönnies), through Blue Systems. They sponsor dweb too. Just random aside.
Essentially the same built-in problems that crypto has. The model works for blogging, like twitter and reddit clones. It’s just not the right set up for frequent requests or a huge amount of storage.
That being said, I hope a few of the mirrors are exploiting the current geo-political climate. Canada may eventually fold, but a server in Russia or China ought to be well enough removed.