@atomicpoet I'd be careful with that. P2P exists for more than two decades, yet never had considerable adoption outside "piracy" and hosting extremely large data (e.g. datasets).

My experience with BitTorrent is that it's definitely slower for small files because it takes some time to find seeders. And accessing IPFS is also slow.

But maybe this will work for video hosting sites, since videos are large files.

@atomicpoet That's why I'd be wary of relying on P2P for archivization purposes as well. A proper archive must survive a complete loss of popularity. Hosting is costly, so seeders that are not committed to doing that (which are the vast majority) tend to disappear with time.

@atomicpoet But in that case how does that differ from what archive.org and archive.today are already doing? What substantial difference would a new protocol provide? You can easily make your client automatically download an archive version of a page if the link dies. And The Internet Archive is mirrored, so it's not a single point of failure either.