Why isn't distributed/decentralized archiving currently used?

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Archive.org

Man I don't mean to be this rude, but have you even been to archive.org? Usually when you speak on topics you are expected to have some sort of knowledge about this stuff. Archive.org DOES use torrents for many many many files. Come on man.

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Magnetico

You can create decentralized bittorrent indexers though (see https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico as an example)! This means you can search for bittorrent files without having to rely on a centralized service (although building the index does require some time & storage space of course).

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FileCoin

Filecoin (see https://filecoin.io/) is also sort of interesting in terms of ensuring redundancy, although it does use crypto for monetary incentive. As much as I'm opposed to adding crypto to where it doesn't belong, it does do a really good job at ensuring redundancy & very much minimizing the risk of data loss.

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