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My story is simple: I supported important historical site, but due to war and personal issues I was not able to transfer money to .ru zone registrar. I have the data, but domain was lost.
If it has historic value, you can upload the data for free to archive.org to avoid data loss. .
I think there is something to be said about what is worth archiving. I don't know what it is that should be said though. It seems weird to me that as a society we might be saving things such as a 10 hour video of white noise for another 100 years rather than some personal blogs. What is and isn't worth saving?
It will probably end up being the most popular things, the most viewed or read. More copies of it, more likely to be archived. This reminds me of books. I’m sure the majority of books from over a hundred years ago are lost because they weren’t popular. We haven’t really noticed their absence…
For example, if LLM NN model weights are distributed with IPFS instead of corporate infrastructure (basically zero redundancy) the popular models would be very available, and have essentially near zero chance of being lost.
To state that again, the llama models likely have tens of thousands of downloads, which would mean tens of thousands of servers and backups of the data, versus what we have now, which is essentially just one.
We need IPFS for data distribution. Tightly knit integration with git repos is an obvious match as well.
Imgur recently purged an untold number of pictures from their servers. How much knowledge has simply been discarded because it was too expensive to keep it?
Everyone here wants to store things forever, no one wants to pay
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Every time we forget the old world, we reinvent it better Historically that has not been the case for most of human history. As odd as it might seem, in general the rediscovery of the accomplishments ancient world has been a great driver towards progress. The periods when the accomplishments of the past were lost and fully forgotten were the sorts of times people call Dark Ages.
Actually the cities that are the most modern and progress-oriented today are the ones that felt comfortable bulldozing all relics of the past. (or the ones where the "old city" was destroyed in brutal urban warfare)