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Are there any alternatives to the Internet Archive that are built around P2P, so that everyone can contribute to hosting/sharing web archives? Seems like having all these important archives hosted by (andrew.masto.host)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think that proof-of-work approach to blockchain can make ddos attacks much harder, but I'm not an expert too :)

[–] CameronDev 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I figured that every node would need to scrap the site, in order to validate the content. If there are thousands of nodes, that would ddos the site.

I don't really understand how PoW would solve that, can you explain?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it can be done like a NFTs on top of Bitcoin. In this case evey archived page is NFT and all the blockchain is available, so there is no centralized cite. If each action will require some computations (PoW) then ddos attack or spam attack will be very hard to implement.

[–] CameronDev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thats for proving its untampered with right? I'm more thinking of validating the archive copy is a "true" copy when adding it initially, which requires each node to check against the live site?

Its definitely an intriguing idea though, but I don't know enough to know how feasable it can be

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