ipfs

Interested to hear thoughts from ipfs-heads.

Toying with a project idea for decentralising public domain media and documents to preserve and protect historical information.

However the data is so vast that renting space from ipfs services would be extortionate.

Is the sensible way forward to self-host on hardware?

Here’s a guide @stevedylandev.eth wrote on self hosting via a raspberry pi.

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I fear that with thousands of petabytes to be migrated to decentralised storage, it would take hundreds of thousands to build machines capable of hosting such file sizes, let alone split them across multiple devices for further decentralisation.

Unfortunately it seems like a money pit.

Here’s a guide @stevedylandev.eth wrote on self hosting via a raspberry pi. https://www.pinata.cloud/blog/how-to-run-ipfs-on-a-raspberry-pi

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It’s all still ideation at this stage, so I don’t have anything to share yet I’m afraid!

Any docs/sites I can check out, about your project? We at @journodao are working on something similar, and just started the /journalism channel to chat about this stuff.

Ironically as I was looking into it I noticed that archive.org had optional ipfs as well. It seems like they are beginning to move that direction (which is great to see).

My thoughts were to bring together a community that would all share and partake in the hosting, but my fear is it would be a money pit for everyone.

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There are a lot of projects working on this. eg Internet Archive is doing some IPFS/Filecoin experiments. 

IPFS gives you a permanent immutable content address. 

You’re going to want different techniques for long term, redundant persistent storage. 

Or lean into users: IPFS desktop on 1000s of home users.