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Are you familiar with IPFS? #2
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I downloaded the torrent and ran
The With IPFS Companion the address could automatically be redirected to your local gateway or your preferred public gateway. The /ipfs/ links are immutable, /ipns/ would be mutable by people holding the private keys to it, but I haven't used /ipns/ personally. Edit: Here is also rustymage's backup
https://ipns.co/ipfs/QmdFB5YUxcYoRf6zFSSh1cvXHrehj6jeoqr7WYefQ59whW/Reddit_Piracy.7z |
So from what I understand this is basically archiving but with updates? |
More of archiving and P2P CDN put together, but there is also support for updates (mutable content) in form of IPNS, but I haven't used that feature by myself. |
I may be somewhat late as I came from TorrentFreak's article Reddit’s /r/Piracy is Deleting Almost 10 Years of History to Avoid Ban, but I was wondering if you have heard of IPFS or if the backup is available within it?
IPFS is abbreviation of InterPlanetary FileSystem where users who visit the content also host it temporarily (unless they pin it becoming more permanent servers). It's still experimental, but archivists are one of the things they say be useful for here and now on their homepage.
IPFS has deduplication inbuild so as the backup changes, the existing parts won't be stored twice so the data may take less space in IPFS repository than outside of it. I have also seen parts of /r/piracy with IPFS-Search.
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