jonny (good kind) on Nostr: An archive that runs on technology from 2001 and for literally $0/month, that's zero ...

An archive that runs on technology from 2001 and for literally $0/month, that's zero dollars and zero cents per month, serves as "the database" for an amount of data transferred that would have cost almost $1,000,000, or one million dollars, using S3. Sure torrents have come and gone from academictorrents, but it's tiny, niche, and bittorrent is 23 years old and very badly suited for research data. The ones that survive are the ones that people use and care about. If you want something to survive you can literally make that happen with a raspberry pi stashed in a storage closet with a flash drive attached to it.

it's such a preposterously good idea to develop p2p systems that actually meet our needs the ratio of benefit to cost is literally infinite.

https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#from-this-very-simple-example-we-can-articulate-a-number-of-attr