Mastodawn

why don't we have wikipedia on ipfs or bittorrent or something. harder to shut down if everyone has a copy

@KitRedgrave
Nothing's stopping you from hosting a copy of wikipedia on IPFS. In fact, if you've got the space and the bandwidth, I recommend it.

Their dumps are on bittorrent but they're compressed which prevents you from pulling whole articles out of the DHT one at a time.

I'm also quite fond of this: http://xowa.org/

A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

@drwho @kitredgrave @xj9 What are some differences between #xowa and #kiwix ?

@clacke @KitRedgrave @xj9 Xowa can work with Mediawikis in general, while Kiwix is pretty Wikipedia-centric. Also, Xowa can run as a portable app.

@drwho @KitRedgrave I wonder if any of these contain old enough data that I can re-create the glory of the Jerkcity article

@USBloveDog @KitRedgrave Unknown. I don't prowl around IPFS much. Yet.

A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

@[email protected] but it already is? https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/

pawoo.net

@KitRedgrave I think it would be nice to federate Wikipedia. And to build a federated youtube, but that's another subject.