• Allero@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Federation would allow you to only host mods not hosted at other servers, with some level of redundancy.

    Also, it could use a modding app with BitTorrent-like functionality, so that downloaders could share their copies as well.

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      1 month ago

      So…old mods or mods for uninteresting and obscure games would eventually die because of zero seeders. It’s a fact of life that this would happen

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        1 month ago

        I wonder if this could be solved on protocol level, i.e. automatically preserve objects with least redundancy, as known to the server.

        Like if federated servers hold 50 copies of a file, it’s likely not worthy of saving, but if there is only 1 or 2, it must be stored.