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   Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 22:17:02 JST Ed Summers

   @alex interesting questions! I found myself thinking of how #webrings could fit in somewhere.

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     Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 22:16:57 JST Ed Summers

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     @alex but back to torrents, clients have been around a while, and have been stress tested under the most severe conditions. It's hard to imagine the protocol going away as long as there is an Internet? You might want to check out how Magnet Links work, which let users share links to their torrents and retrieve the metadata and data from peers using a Distributed Hash Table (DHT). IPFS uses a DHT as well.

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     Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 22:16:58 JST Ed Summers

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     @alex random aside re governance: I just received this in the mail yesterday from @medlab

     https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/10/03/get-our-latest-zine-open-source-governance-change-cards

     Life is Tetris repeated this.
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     Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 22:16:59 JST Ed Summers

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     @alex we have been focused on getting static site exports out of dynamic web applications, and onto ipfs-cluster where they can then be replicated amongst friendly organizations. But really the harder part so far has been, like you said, the social governance part.

     https://inkdroid.org/2024/10/20/pincushion/

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     Ed Summers (edsu@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 22:17:00 JST Ed Summers

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     @alex For some community archiving work [1] I've been helping evaluate ipfs-cluster for adding/deleting pins (files) amongst a group of collaborators. I do find myself worrying about overcommitting to IPFS because even after all these years it doesn't seem to get used by many in actual production systems. But maybe that's not fair.

     [1] https://www.shiftcollective.us/ffdw/