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i think we need a new world wide web that doesn't rely on archival services to preserve things. the fact that publishing something online does not create a permanent copy anywhere is troublesome. what if we moved to a syndication model, where mirroring is the norm, and automatic?
not webrings, not ipfs, but a new, third thing: you republish your friends' websites.
what if we brought back the 90's fad of putting tiny pixel art buttons at the bottom of web pages, but the button said “mirror me!” and linked to a site about this concept
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@leo@60228.dev
@hikari simply make your site have a read-only activitypub implementation
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@leo@60228.dev
@hikari this is probably a really bad idea but it WOULD solve your problem
@leo oh i was actually thinking about activitypub… i probably don't want to use that protocol but some of the ideas from it (public keys in particular) are appealing
@hikari that reminds me of the beaker browser / dat protocol 🥲 rip that.
@hikari Would you have published documents be mutable or immutable? At first glance I feel like the former doesn’t then solve the archiving problem, but the latter requires unbounded amounts of storage