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The decentralized web is growing (jlai.lu)

submitted 1 year ago by Mubelotix@jlai.lu to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] egeres@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't know about this, thanks for the heads up!! But, with this decentralized approach, if a peertube node "dies", could those videos be saved in a different node? I guess one of my biggest concerns with the fediverse is that fragmenting the network might also lead to fragility of content

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

Nope. If there's nobody to rip out physical storage and move it, it's gone.

[-] egeres@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oof, that might be a solid roadblock limiting peertube/fediverse. Decentralization sounds great as a greediness deterrence system, but it also feels like lesser nodes will be more prone to stop maintenance over many years, making decentralize content more fragile than centralized. I wonder if a way to counterattack this is via enabling posts mirroring and content transfer among fediverse instances... 🤔

[-] Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Otoh do we need perfect (or even good) persistence for the 36284th similar bbq tuto or some random-ass cat video?

[-] egeres@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get that point! But imagine "ancient youtube history videos" like "chocolate rain" were hosted on an old and unstable peertube node. I would find it sad that a decentralized infrastructure erased old and historic eras of the internet. I'm not saying this just defeats the whole fediverse, I just find it a point of concern, I'm sure if it is really a problem the developers and community will find approaches to mitigate it!

(Btw, I'm not yet well informed about all the caveats/tradeoffs/unwritten rules of lemmy/mastodon/peertube when it comes to data storage, so maybe what I'm saying just doesn't make sense at all, correct me if I'm wrong!!)