On: The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack

[swyx]

would a decentralized internet archive make sense? impossible to ddos.

[Uptrenda → swyx]

I'd love to work on something like this. But the internet archive themselves don't seem too interested in it I guess.

[jazzyjackson → Uptrenda]

they literally organize an annual conference called "Dweb Camp" to support a community of distributed web nerds and have a partnership with Filecoin to mirror content to IPFS. They opened up a Vancouver headquarters to start acting as a mirror - they are very interested in removing themselves as a single point of failure

[immibis → swyx]

That exists and it's called Arweave. You even collect imaginary brownie points for maintaining the archive.

[swyx → immibis]

> Arweave

looks a bit more broad than i wanted. as is its like a thin wrapper for IPFS.

[immibis → swyx]

It's a fake brownie point scheme (i.e. cryptocurrency) to let the people who archive the most stuff decide what goes into the archive. There's also IPFS but that has absolutely no way to decide what gets archived.