Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community

• Crankenstein@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let me introduce you to torrenting and community distribution of data.

  It could be implemented this way so that no one individual would need to fully shoulder the burden of hosting everything.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So…old mods would eventually die because of zero seeders. It’s a fact of life that this would happen

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since mods are almost exclusively unable to be copyrighted nowadays, there is a very good chance the Internet Archive would be more than happy to host the mod data - as they have with many community projects.

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