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The idea is that people who care most about keeping it up will pin it, or pay to keep it pinned.

If this gets implemented in browsers (native or as an extension) I would hope that bookmarking would serve that purpose. Seems like to logical choice.

Perhaps it is also possible to tweak the caching algorithm to keep track of files that are rare on the network.

I believe incentives for seeding rare files are in the future plans for bitswap

Much like they do now by keeping their web server online?

If somebody put something online fifteen years ago, they might not care about it anymore, but I might. With the current web, I can mirror that content by downloading it and putting it on a new server. With this system, that process would be part of the basic workings of the system.

Sounds somewhat like bittorrent.... as long as there is a "seed" then the content is available, but it falls apart when the last seeder disconnects.

... and it also sounds like usenet, but here everybody is a news server and they selectively host articles.

With bittorrent you could make a call in a public forum for more seeds for a file. And if people have a copy of that particular content they can reseed.

I wonder if this would also be possible in this case?

For example, my small server might serve 200 sites but I'll backup around 500 or so older ones somewhere else.

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