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submitted 3 months ago by Temperche@slrpnk.net to c/peertube@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/30334032

Hi @ll, a friend of mine is a scientist and has written many papers. Each of these papers has a lot of underlying video data (which show each experiment in detail). For example, one paper is easily 200 GB of video data. Now, my friend is looking for a free public archive to make this data publicly available, also for archiving purposes. The best recommendations he has received was to upload everything to Youtube, but I said - don't. I would like to recommend him a PeerTube instance for that but I have no clue which instance would agree to that much video data for archiving purposes. Might you have an idea? Peace out, T

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[-] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 months ago

The archival is done on someone else's computer, so someone will have to pay for storage and the services for making it publicly available. And even the person that believes everything should be free will start reconsidering once the instance's bill arrives.

My suggestions are either making it available 1) on a self-hosted Peertube instance, 2) on an instance after an agreement (potentially even a financial one), but that requires reaching to the admins of each instance considered, 3) through torrent, 4) on archival sites like Internet Archive, 5) on more profit-oriented Youtube competitors like Odysee and Rumble if your friend must avoid Youtube, as those could probably endure a few potential TB of data more.

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