Hey, I am curious, are people working on storing fediverse data off the servers? Like using bittorent protocol or ipfs?
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Holos are building something where the data is stored on your phone instead of the server.
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
Its is commonly done with S3 compatible storage, and projects like Garage allow to do so in a distributed way.
Neither Bittorrent or IPFS seem particularly well suited for this.
Off of what servers? Fediverse data is already archived across thousands of servers through federation.
Servers like centralised data storage
Centralized where ? Each instance is autonomous and independent
Fediverse is still federated. I was talking about storing data decentralised, like using ipfs
Yeah but “decentalised” here is not clear. Do you mean a storage that is not controlled by the instance ?
PeerTube is using Webtorrent to distribute the load to all viewers that currently watch the video. And if you host a PeerTube instance you can manually mirror videos on your instance that are hosted on other PeerTube instances.
I’ve always liked to think of torrenting as decentralized cloud
Big old flash drive.
USB 2.0, so they’re cheap and you can RAID 'em.
I’m not sure if this is exactly what you’re looking for, OP, but I do know of https://activitypods.org/.
What do you mean by fediverse data?
What problem are you trying to solve that isn’t solved by BitTorrent and IPFS?
The nice thing about the fediverse is that it’s largely a concept with a few common protocols to make interoperability easier, you can solve pretty much any problem in line with the fediverse, but you do actually need a problem to solve.
