Showerthoughts

29805 readers

797 users here now

A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

Rules

All posts must be showerthoughts
The entire showerthought must be in the title
Avoid politics
- 3.1) NEW RULE as of 5 Nov 2024, trying it out
- 3.2) Political posts often end up being circle jerks (not offering unique perspective) or enflaming (too much work for mods).
- 3.3) Try c/politicaldiscussion, volunteer as a mod here, or start your own community.
Posts must be original/unique
Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

447

YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

63 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I wish that the Internet Archive would focus on allowing the public to store data. Distribute the network over the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

In theory this could be true. In practice, data would be ripe for poisoning. It's like the idea of turning every router into a last mile CDN with a 20TB hard drive.

Then you have to think about security and not letting the data change from what was originally given. Idk. I'm sure something is possible, but without a real 'omph' nothing big happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

The data would be hashed so any changes would be thrown out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Nah, that's the easy part. Checksum technology has been around for many decades

https://www.lifewire.com/what-does-checksum-mean-2625825

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Blockchain? Prolly not a perfect solution by far, but

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Huh? The public can store data on IA just fine. I've uploaded dozens of public-domain books there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

But all the data is on IA's servers. In the event their servers go down for good, that's it. There's no way to self host parts of the Archive fediverse style.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's true, but organising and managing such a distributed form of IA would probably be a nightmare of a job. I've seen many people suggest that to IA, but they seem to be very very reluctant about the idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Distributed systems have come a long way. It would be possible