Some friends have been working on a to-be-federated media hosting web application called MediaGoblin. They’re running a crowdfunding campaign to pay for more developer time. Please join me in feeding the developers.
For irony and goading (noted and fixed before I could get this post up), an appreciation (but not implementation) of POSSE (probably complementary to federation, but a different take on not entirely the same problem), and a test of hosting (which includes identifiers) permanence, I uploaded their campaign video various places. I’ve ordered below by my guess at longevity, from high to low (* next to those I did not upload).
BitTorrent magnet link, pirate bay listing.
Commented out FSF static hosting found in source of the campaign page.*
MediaGoblin instance at goblin.se.*
CDN hosted files found in source of the campaign page.*
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