This is building yet another silo and point of failure. We can't pass the entire Internet traffic thru WayBackMachine as its resources are limited.
Most preserving solutions are like that and at the end the funding or business priorities (google groups) become a serious problem.
I think we need something like web - distributed and dumb easy to participate and contribute a preservation space.
Look, there are Torrents available for 17 years [0]. Sure, there are some unintresting long gone but there is always a little chance somebody still has the file and someday becomes online with it.
I know about IPFS/Dat/SBB, but still that stuff, like Bitcoin, is too complex for a layman contributor with a plain altruistic motivation.
It should be like SETI@Home - fire and forget. Eventually integrated with a browser to cache content you star/bookmark and share when it is offline.
Most preserving solutions are like that and at the end the funding or business priorities (google groups) become a serious problem.
I think we need something like web - distributed and dumb easy to participate and contribute a preservation space.
Look, there are Torrents available for 17 years [0]. Sure, there are some unintresting long gone but there is always a little chance somebody still has the file and someday becomes online with it.
I know about IPFS/Dat/SBB, but still that stuff, like Bitcoin, is too complex for a layman contributor with a plain altruistic motivation. It should be like SETI@Home - fire and forget. Eventually integrated with a browser to cache content you star/bookmark and share when it is offline.
[0] https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-oldest-torrent-still-alive-a...