Yes, for storage, if we coordinated enough. Such technologies already exist. But IA also does tons of archival work that isn't so easily distributed. And their lending system isn't easily legally federated.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Ok, but what if we wanted to each take pieces of that tree of knowledge and help others learn from it. Could we possibly hold onto that information and plant our own little trees with seeds? And the more people who had seeds, the faster the tree would ~~download~~ grow.

^Arrrgh matey^

[–] WallsToTheBalls@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago

water noises

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Their lending system is not part of their core functionality and IMO should be a separate thing.