Had this thought the other day and tbh it’s horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    10 days ago

    One of those is not a non-profit foundation, and that’s a Problem.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    10 days ago

    I think it’s a bit ironic that Wikipedia hasn’t succumbed to the modern era of misinformation the way other information sources have, particularly given the warnings about it that have been given in the past. Not saying those warnings aren’t warranted, just that the way things have played out is counter to said expectations.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    10 days ago

    Alexandria was important in its time, but in terms of the volume and quality of information we keep on Wikipedia alone, it is a mosquito in the Taj Mahal.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      wikibooks is cool, had no idea that existed. I’m sure next time I get curious at 3am I’ll end up there reading about the history of ‘vectors’ or some other random stuff lol

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    8·
    10 days ago

    There was a video I saw (I think it was hank or John Green), where they talked about the implications of twitter being deleted during the start of Elon. They pulled out a joke book they bought of “1000 twitter posts” and said how it would be the only recorded proof they (personally) had of what twitter was.

    It’s terrifying thinking of just how much information is just being put in the hands of companies that don’t care or just on old hard drives about to give out due to funding. I wish there was a way to backup a random part of the information automatically, like a “I’ll give you a terabyte of backup, make the most of it” automatically choosing what isn’t backuped already.

    Also add reddit too, the amount of times I’ve searched a question and went through 2024 website crap then went back to the search and added “site:reddit” into DuckDuckGo and got an answer instantly.

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 days ago

      The problem with YouTube is the sheer amount of storage required. Just going by the 10 Exabyte figure mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there are about 25,000 fediverse servers across all services in total IIRC, so even if you evenly split that 10EB across all of them, they would still need 400TB each just to cover what we have today.

      Famously YouTube needs a petabyte of fresh storage every day, so each of those servers would need to be able to accept an additional 40GB a day.

      Realistically though, any kind of decentralised archive wouldn’t start with 25,000 servers, so the operational needs are going to be significantly higher in reality

      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
        1·
        10 days ago

        Hmm good point. If this was too be anywhere near realistic, there would need to be a way to triage videos by whether they are actually worth archiving