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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Under the full blood red moon the hideous monster raises it's gnarly visage howling into the deathly cold night, "It's all about the Benjamins!"

Maybe, just maybe, there's an opportunity here to 1) openly discuss and transparently develop some ideas about this, and 2) ultimately arrive at a general consensus about ways to not only financially support the archivist posse, assuming that happens, and of course SaidIt. Sustainability.

There are a lot of ways this might happen. Per post or per megabyte or whatever.

I don't even remotely know how it might all work, including some guarantees. Not intentionally, I admit I am not reliable. If I had a computer it may go down for a month or a year until I fix it. If I fix it. Because it's a server in a federation I would feel compelled to participate and get it going. In 5 years I might be weary of it and have other interests. And there may be others who are even worse than I am.

This is a problem. There'd have to be commitments, guarantees, backups, recourses, and redirects. I don't even know where to begin.

One thing I have thought about is shipping/mailing hard drives to quickly transfer vast quantities of data. This would breach anonymity issues for some. But if the ring of archivists were to have their secret Santa on each side not everyone would need to know, though trust would be critical. One drive arrives and you sync it while mailing the same one when your done or there are more than one in play. But you can't just have random stuff on the drive. It has to be organized, and it seems to me the best way to organize it is by date. If we started one for 2019 we'd all be on the same page, kinda like block chain. Maybe we fill a 4tb drive every 2 or 4 or 6 or 12 months. As the drive gets close to full we determine that at midnight of a preset day begins the next dive. Anyone new joining the archive can either slowly torrent the archive from the many or ask and get a cloned drive that they can verify. A further way to shard it, torrents could be time spans or be triggered at a certain megabyte - like blockchain.

I could go on but I should stop. I'm tired and not so clear.

I guess my point is, if "everything I post is worth the indie-archive", then I should help support it, in cash, crypto, home servers, or seed boxes in the cloud.