Two kinds of archives of comparable scale and complexity.
Kind A:
(a) has no resources,
(b) has no-one using their real names and thus no ego incentives or accountability,
(c) is actively being hunted by the entirety of global capital, intellectual property division
Kind B:
(a) has a ton of freely given resources
(b) is entirely driven by reputation and ostensibly has accountability mechanisms for failure to deliver
(c) is wholly legal and in fact one of the least opposed endeavors of information work
When Kind A is finally hunted down and forced to suddenly purge all their servers without warning or has them captured by law enforcement, the site goes down but the archive is able to reconstruct itself in a matter of days.
When Kind B has its funding lapse it is a complete, catastrophic loss.
COULD IT BE that the pirates prove something about the survivability and effectiveness of p2p archives???? COULD IT ALSO BE that they reveal the basic patterns of power and control that drive people to consistently choose Kind B systems?????
jonny (good kind) /
npub1lj…pw8tm
2024-09-20 07:19:09
in reply to nevent1q…2qzu
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wss://relay.momostr.pinkPublished at
2024-09-20 07:19:09Event JSON
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