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Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive by henvic on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:36PM (#26666413)
Decentralizing it would be far more simple if they provided something such as an application you could download and partially mirror some parts of it, for example.

Eventually, given enough interest, they'd mirror everything. Maybe they could even build this on top of Torrent.

Re:Filecoin Foundation Grants 50k FIL to the Internet Archive by Jtsummers on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:55PM (#26666631)
Or even straight on top of IPFS since there are existing HTTP gateways for IPFS to access the content and most of the archive is static in nature. Provide a client which can be used to coordinate between the numerous volunteers to ensure a wide (ideally full) backup of IA distributed over IPFS, paired with volunteer pinning of specific portions by interest groups and individuals. Their self-hosted IPFS node(s) would become the permanent seeds for this system and broader use of IPFS would ensure wider (though not guaranteed sans pinning) availability.