And ensuring preservation and availability across unreliable nodes is pretty difficult, requires considerable redundancy. How many people are willing to do that especially when it's legally difficult?

edit: and how many people would keep their mirrors up when FBI/Europol start cracking down on people hosting mirrors.

edit: There seems to have been an effort to decentralize internetarchive on dweb. But I'm not sure how serious dweb is, it seems to have been a vehicle to promote crypto (the blockchain kind) at least in part.

I also found out that KDE (the linux desktop) is funded by big meat (Tönnies), through Blue Systems. They sponsor dweb too. Just random aside.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Essentially the same built-in problems that crypto has. The model works for blogging, like twitter and reddit clones. It's just not the right set up for frequent requests or a huge amount of storage.

That being said, I hope a few of the mirrors are exploiting the current geo-political climate. Canada may eventually fold, but a server in Russia or China ought to be well enough removed.