> It's what happens when a place that was supposed to be free and decentralized has become the exact opposite
This is where you lost me. Wayback machine is a centralized repository.
A decentralized system would not have prevented data loss any better without burdening peers with shit they rightfully don't want to host. Nobody wants the cost of hosting anything but their own, and only their own, content.
The only way you're getting anyone to host things from the past is for there to be an incentive. The only incentive possible is a centralized repository.
This is where you lost me. Wayback machine is a centralized repository.
A decentralized system would not have prevented data loss any better without burdening peers with shit they rightfully don't want to host. Nobody wants the cost of hosting anything but their own, and only their own, content.
The only way you're getting anyone to host things from the past is for there to be an incentive. The only incentive possible is a centralized repository.