we can still easily fall into this trap if there isn’t a good way to migrate communities between instances. And even if we could just take /c/[email protected] and move the whole thing to /c/[email protected] or something, that would still break all the indexers’ links
we can still easily fall into this trap if there isn’t a good way to migrate communities between instances. And even if we could just take /c/[email protected] and move the whole thing to /c/[email protected] or something, that would still break all the indexers’ links
What we really need is some sort of torrent-like system for this content with something equivalent to magnet links.
Sounds like you’re describing ipfs :D
https://ipfs.tech/#how
IPFS is for static content. For dynamic content, like reddit/lemmy, you’d want to build it on something like Locutus/Freenet 2023.
I love the idea of IPFS, but every time I’ve tried to use it, it has always been very slow.
amusingly another chicken egg problem. More chickens, faster the eggs. Wait that metaphor works!