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Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by jahnu on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:09AM (#33620314)
Is it be possible to "donate" storage to the Internet Archive in the form of being part of it's infrastructure but distributed? Like plug in an off the shelf NAS on my home network which acts as a backup for some part of the archive? Perhaps that is wasteful, but then again also resilient.
Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by vertis on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @07:58AM (#33622240)
If they store on IPFS (someone else said they did), then the answer is yes. Grab a subset of the content and mirror it to your device. Keep said device online.
Re:Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books by KoftaBob on Sunday November 27, 2022 @06:19AM (#33762173)
What you’re describing is how IPFS Collaborative Clusters work.

The Internet Archive team would need to host one, and then others could join as “peers” to help seed.

https://collab.ipfscluster.io/