YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria - eviltoast

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

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    This is a topic that is pretty well tested. Basically the data is validated when received.

    For instance in IPFS data is tracked by its hash. You request something by a CID which is just a hash.

    There are other distributed networks and they all have there own ways of protecting against attacks. Usually an attack requires a huge amount of resources.

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      1 month ago

      Even in ipfs, I don’t understand discoverability. Sort of sounds like it still needs a centralized list of metadata to content I’d, etc.