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YouTube, Wikipedia, and Archive.org are the modern day library of Alexandria (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by TriflingToad to c/[email protected]

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Had this thought the other day and tbh it's horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

The problem with YouTube is the sheer amount of storage required. Just going by the 10 Exabyte figure mentioned elsewhere in the thread, there are about 25,000 fediverse servers across all services in total IIRC, so even if you evenly split that 10EB across all of them, they would still need 400TB each just to cover what we have today.

Famously YouTube needs a petabyte of fresh storage every day, so each of those servers would need to be able to accept an additional 40GB a day.

Realistically though, any kind of decentralised archive wouldn't start with 25,000 servers, so the operational needs are going to be significantly higher in reality

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I know it's totally subjective, but I wonder how much "non-trash" YouTube is uploaded each day?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Hmm good point. If this was too be anywhere near realistic, there would need to be a way to triage videos by whether they are actually worth archiving