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I'm picturing every community building their own cloud provider (AWS equivalent) and I don't see how it would be more sustainable than having Amazon do it. I th
by simmanian 6y ago
I'm picturing every community building their own cloud provider (AWS equivalent) and I don't see how it would be more sustainable than having Amazon do it. I think there would be a right balance between "every community does everything with full redundancy!" and "have economies of scale take care of everything!"
- jagger27 6y agoKind of tangential, but wouldn’t it be cool to have a rack or two of Internet Archive shards in local library basements?
- simmanian 6y agoI'm hoping distributed computing platforms will mature enough in the near future to get us there.
- kitotik 6y agoThere are other benefits from decentralization besides just sustainability, such as resiliency and autonomy.