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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by aspenmayer on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:16AM (#23477975)
Sounds kind of like a newsgroup, with every client also being a server. I think torrents can be dynamically updated now.[1][2] Maybe we already have the tools we need, we just haven’t put all the pieces together yet.

[1] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html

[2] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by idoby on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:19AM (#23478030)
That's right. We need to start thinking decentralized. Instead of using DNS to find a server and HTTP to get the content from it, we should switch to a decentralized lookup of the data itself, sourced from wherever the network can serve it. I don't mind getting one wiki page from Peter and another from Paul.
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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by aspenmayer on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:58PM (#23620882)
Update on this front:

Web3Torrent adds etherium micropayments to WebTorrent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23602008

https://blog.statechannels.org/introducing-web3torrent/

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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by aspenmayer on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:51AM (#23478473)
I think IPFS and Filecoin could solve these problems and keep attribution and data integrity intact. Would be nice to have the privacy of monero or another more private coin to facilitate subscription functionality with built in micropayments.
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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by lizardmancan on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:27AM (#23478145)
nice. pointing 2 torrents at the same folder alteady works. If they share files at worse it will be overwritten with the same content. Even if there is a lack of clients supporting it you can still force a re-check and avoid downloading everything again.
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