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@pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub (mastodon.social)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I strongly disagree on that point. Preservation of the internet is extremely important for cultural and historical reasons. Just look at the enormous amount of old websites stored on the internet archive and how helpful as well as culturally significant that preservation effort is. And that is only a drop in the ocean compared to how big the internet actually is.

Yes preserving stuff, especially video, takes enormous amounts of data and is hard but is well worth the effort in the end.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

but is well worth the effort in the end.

That's easily said when you don't have to supply the effort or pay the hosting bill.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

takes enormous amounts of data and is hard

Seems like this was acknowledged, but a good point nonetheless (that's often overlooked).

I'm currently sitting on 4TB of data (that's largely movies and TV shows), running on 4-year-old hardware, with 3 local replicants, backed up to cloud.

My power and cloud costs are trivial - about 25 cents a day - that's less than $100/year (after hardware costs, which come out to about $150/year to continue with similar performance levels). My 4 year old "server" idles at about 20 watts. I can probably bring this down to perhaps 10w with a newer NUC or similar.

I could easily store everything my extended family produces (including cousins, about 50 people) with a similar setup. In fact, I'm working on just such a project - an SFF or NUC type device with sufficient.

Edit: autocorrect changed $100 to $10