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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by TimJRobinson on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:28PM (#29847554)
Filecoin that you pay to have any files you like mirrored by many people, in a decentralized way.

Arweave is also a one off fee to have the file mirrored forever, the hosters are paid from the yield earned on that fee.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by TimJRobinson on Friday January 07, 2022 @11:04PM (#29848526)
Sorry hacker news had an outage and somehow removed the first half of this comment and it's too late to edit now. Top was:

You are correct about IPFS, it's just like torrents. There are services like Arweave, Sia and Filecoin where you can pay...

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by pcthrowaway on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:05AM (#29849679)
Arweave nodes can choose not to store data (and will likely drop data that's not profitable over time also), so I'm not sure that it's really a solution.
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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by TimJRobinson on Saturday January 08, 2022 @03:28AM (#29849790)
Individual nodes can choose not to store it, but your data is sharded amongst many nodes. Usually it's something like 64/96 redundancy - it's sharded across 96 nodes and at least 64 must be online to retrieve the data. It gets re-distributed if some nodes are offline for a while (not sure on specific numbers)
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