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They say there's so much stuff on there that it would be effectively impossible for any one person to preserve it. Not that anybody would want to since most of it is probably useless crap.

I would imagine if everybody from our corner of the internet went at it individually, there would be a lot of overlap/redundant downloads. Wasted bandwidth and man hours.

Would it make sense to arrange a coordinated approach as a group? Have one guy get as much as he can from Topic A, another from Topic B, etc and then figure out how to exchange data afterwards so everybody has a complete collection?

It would require trust that whoever is in charge of Topic N doesn't fuck it up for everybody else. Maybe do a series of smaller exchanges so you can weed out the flakes early on.

Thoughts?

They say there's so much stuff on there that it would be effectively impossible for any one person to preserve it. Not that anybody would want to since most of it is probably useless crap. I would imagine if everybody from our corner of the internet went at it individually, there would be a lot of overlap/redundant downloads. Wasted bandwidth and man hours. Would it make sense to arrange a coordinated approach as a group? Have one guy get as much as he can from Topic A, another from Topic B, etc and then figure out how to exchange data afterwards so everybody has a complete collection? It would require trust that whoever is in charge of Topic N doesn't fuck it up for everybody else. Maybe do a series of smaller exchanges so you can weed out the flakes early on. Thoughts?

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IPFS is quite a thing, it didn't get the attention it deserves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System

The main strong point isn't anonymity as you can see in the table below, but it has speed (which freenet doesn't have) and it can run offline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_web_hosting

https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/

That's a direct link to a wiki page on IPFS https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/

You have i2p also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P

The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an anonymous network layer (implemented as a Mix Network) that allows for censorship-resistant, peer to peer communication. Anonymous connections are achieved by encrypting the user's traffic (by using end-to-end encryption), and sending it through a volunteer-run network of roughly 55,000 computers distributed around the world. Given the high number of possible paths the traffic can transit, a third party watching a full connection is unlikely. The software that implements this layer is called an "I2P router", and a computer running I2P is called an "I2P node". I2P is free and open source, and is published under multiple licenses.[5]

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Now, even if we had a network that is fast enough, secure enough, "anonymous" enough (note the "unlikely" above... It means it's not mathematically impossible...), and "easy to use" enough... We still have a problem; how do you render it visible on the clearnet so you can share links with normies and casual chat anywhere, like right now between you and me... With IPFS you can as the wiki link accessible on ipfs.io above demonstrates, BUT, you have to go through a third party centralized server.... And here we go again.... Control the gateway, control the access... Sure you can still access the content but not without installing something.... Now ideally, if that required "something" could come up installed by default with any modern browser... That could be the solution