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Imagine this + some sort of p2p network where all our local archive becomes available to each other.

keepamovin 3y ago
Yeah I love that idea. Plus search. Imagine building your own Google, based on a specialist expert archive of the stuff you're really good at and sharing that out to whoever wants it...and federating it into a giant search engine. Like Yahoo
- Alifatisk 3y ago
  Good addition, in this way, we all would be a gigantic crawler. I think the trade-off here is the latency and data-loss? Or data-loss could be resolved by introducing some sort of redudancy. Like how seeding works in torrents.
- felipeqq2 3y ago
  You should check out https://yacy.net https://yacy.net: a global, P2P web search engine, where each peer can build and share its own index, etc.
  - Alifatisk 3y ago
    Cool find, this seems to be a good option. SearX also came to my mind but isn't exactly p2p.
  - password4321 3y ago
    YaCy discussed almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309
myself248 3y ago
Sounds like a perfect use case for NNCP. It works over any transport, from normal networks to radio links to sneakernet.
- Alifatisk 3y ago
  NNCP
- Alifatisk 3y ago
  What's NNCP?
orangepurple 3y ago
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chaxor 3y ago
You can't mention that on HN! You'll get aggro from all the 'anti-crypto' people! Clearly, this is an awful idea. Because something something web3 might be related, and something something 'crypto'! No clear analysis is needed, because I used the bad word. Everyone must now stop looking into this immediately. /s On a more positive note, I totally agree and there are many options to get it to work. One possible (and probably awful in many ways) start on the idea would be an automatic IPFS backed directory from the single-file extension. Would be nice just for a friend's and family type of project anyway.
johnnyworker 3y ago
I wanted to mention Beaker Browser, but sadly, it's been archived: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-notice.md https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-...

Yeah I love that idea. Plus search. Imagine building your own Google, based on a specialist expert archive of the stuff you're really good at and sharing that out to whoever wants it...and federating it into a giant search engine. Like Yahoo

Alifatisk 3y ago
Good addition, in this way, we all would be a gigantic crawler. I think the trade-off here is the latency and data-loss? Or data-loss could be resolved by introducing some sort of redudancy. Like how seeding works in torrents.
felipeqq2 3y ago
You should check out https://yacy.net https://yacy.net: a global, P2P web search engine, where each peer can build and share its own index, etc.
- Alifatisk 3y ago
  Cool find, this seems to be a good option. SearX also came to my mind but isn't exactly p2p.
- password4321 3y ago
  YaCy discussed almost a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309

myself248 3y ago

Sounds like a perfect use case for NNCP. It works over any transport, from normal networks to radio links to sneakernet.

Alifatisk 3y ago
NNCP
Alifatisk 3y ago
What's NNCP?

orangepurple 3y ago

Congratulations, you have re-discovered DC++ Get a client: https://sourceforge.net/projects/eiskaltdcpp/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/eiskaltdcpp/ And get started with a public hub: https://vacuum.name/en/dc/hubs https://vacuum.name/en/dc/hubs

chaxor 3y ago

You can't mention that on HN! You'll get aggro from all the 'anti-crypto' people! Clearly, this is an awful idea. Because something something web3 might be related, and something something 'crypto'! No clear analysis is needed, because I used the bad word. Everyone must now stop looking into this immediately. /s On a more positive note, I totally agree and there are many options to get it to work. One possible (and probably awful in many ways) start on the idea would be an automatic IPFS backed directory from the single-file extension. Would be nice just for a friend's and family type of project anyway.

johnnyworker 3y ago

I wanted to mention Beaker Browser, but sadly, it's been archived: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-notice.md https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-...