> because the website is a good "web citizen." It has urls that maintain their state over a decade.

It's a shame that maintaining the web is so hard that only a few websites are "good citizens". I wish the web was a -bit- way more like git. It should be easier to crawl the web and serve it.

Say, you browse and get things cached and shared, but only your "local bookmarks" persist. I guess it's like pinning in IPFS.

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moultano 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, I wish we could serve static content more like bittorent, where your uri has an associate hash, and any intermediate router or cache could be an equivalent source of truth, with the final server only needing to play a role if nothing else has it.

It is not possible right now to make hosting democratized/distributed/robust because there's no way for people to donate their own resources in a seamless way to keeping things published. In an ideal world, the internet archive seamlessly drops in to serve any content that goes down in a fashion transparent to the user.

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oncallthrow 3 days ago | parent [-]

This is IPFS

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shpx 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

In my experience from the couple of times I clicked an IPFS link years ago, it loaded for a long time and never actually loaded anything, failing the first "I wish we could serve static content" part.

If you make it possible for people to donate bandwidth you might just discover no one wants to.

	▲	dietr1ch 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think that many are able to toss a almost permanently online raspberry pi in their homes and that's probably enough for sustaining a decently good distributed CAS network that shares small text files. The wanting to is in my mind harder. How do you convince people that having the network is valuable enough? It's easy to compare it with the web backed by few feuds that offer for the most part really good performance, availability and somewhat good discovery.

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drdec 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It's a shame that maintaining the web is so hard that only a few websites are "good citizens"

It's not hard actually. There is a lack of will and forethought on the part of most maintainers. I suspect that monetization also plays a role.

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DANmode 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Let Reddit and friends continue to out themselves for who they are.

Keeps the spotlight on carefully protected communities like this one.