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IA has been free for 30 years.
It is not free to maintain and it costs millions to run. Someone else was paying for it so it can continue to be "free" for 30 years.
(we must be willing to support the public goods we find value in and wish to persist if we want them to continue to persist)
Geeze, you've been using IA to host your own personal media projects? That's disappointing to hear. What's wrong with, like, SoundCloud, etc? I rely on IA for literal public archival material like newspaper scans and broadcast recordings. Your usage of it seems a tad self-indulgent. It seems like having a 1TB drive and p2p hosting would be the most pro-social move, here, if you're unwilling to pay for cloud hosting o…
Bandcamp has a limit on the size of files you upload; which make it even more difficult as a lot of my songs are longer than 25 minutes. (which is precisely the amount their limit is.) Then if you sell something you can get up to a larger file size; unfortunately that is only about double the amount; and the said 3 hour song is 2.1GB on it's own.
Music distributors are unlikely to upload a couple dozen albums because i use excerpts in a creative manner of cartoons and anime or television shows. Which are not allowed on most of them. Plus i have no control over the release day.
All of the ones we both know about are individual song uploads, meaning the album that has 67 songs (released in 2019) with a bunch of five second to half a minute songs, it becomes mildly tedious.
I agree with the P2P idea as well, it is my last resort though. (as i still need to obtain the drive.)
Internet Archive; has the easy drag and drop of a folder and then type in some metadata for the entire release and wait about 20 or so minutes and it is released, no wait time, no individual song uploads, and practically unlimited. (with in reason.)
> Anyways; what i am seeking as an alternative would also include sharing my books If it is your books, literally, then Zenodo is among the best for long-term preservation.
(the books i could host on neocities though.) as i would use that site to impliment the sharing.
I like how Bill Wurtz does it at ` https://billwurtz.com `. Dump everything on a server and list things manually in html. Or you could let your webserver deal with the directory listing. Caddy's looks nice, is customisable too. Can't get simpler than that!
> Anyways; what i am seeking as an alternative would also include sharing my books If it is your books, literally, then Zenodo is among the best for long-term preservation.
My books; wouldn't really fit in there. It would be akin to mad scientist musings from over a decade ago; that have been happening near exactly as what is happening through out the world today. (the books i could host on neocities though.) as i would use that site to impliment the sharing.
You could give it a try; there are some pretty wild stuff there too. But, anyway, my comment was really more about the long-term preservation, which interests me personally. With the heavy link rot we're seeing already, what will the situation be in 10, 25, ..., 100 years? And is everything even worth preserving in the slop era?
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My books; wouldn't really fit in there. It would be akin to mad scientist musings from over a decade ago; that have been happening near exactly as what is happening through out the world today. (the books i could host on neocities though.) as i would use that site to impliment the sharing.
> My books; wouldn't really fit in there. You could give it a try; there are some pretty wild stuff there too. But, anyway, my comment was really more about the long-term preservation, which interests me personally. With the heavy link rot we're seeing already, what will the situation be in 10, 25, ..., 100 years? And is everything even worth preserving in the slop era?
I like how Bill Wurtz does it at ` https://billwurtz.com `. Dump everything on a server and list things manually in html. Or you could let your webserver deal with the directory listing. Caddy's looks nice, is customisable too. Can't get simpler than that!
i will look at Caddy after a good night's sleep.
Geeze, you've been using IA to host your own personal media projects? That's disappointing to hear. What's wrong with, like, SoundCloud, etc? I rely on IA for literal public archival material like newspaper scans and broadcast recordings. Your usage of it seems a tad self-indulgent. It seems like having a 1TB drive and p2p hosting would be the most pro-social move, here, if you're unwilling to pay for cloud hosting o…
Yes. Soundcloud has a 3 hour limit; meaning with my 200 hours of music, i would require a lot of accounts, and i have a song that is 3 hours and 5 minutes long. And i have songs that are as short as 4 seconds long. Bandcamp has a limit on the size of files you upload; which make it even more difficult as a lot of my songs are longer than 25 minutes. (which is precisely the amount their limit is.) Then if you sell som…
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i will look at Caddy after a good night's sleep.
Do reach out if you need help with anything :)
The site is fairly easy to transverse. Plus i can take my time and let it all sink in to internalize the various inputs and things that i will need. So far this is exactly what i was looking for. Thank you.