Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 17 hours agoNexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Communitycomicbook.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1269arrow-down16
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minus-squareDoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoGood luck hosting the terabytes of data that mods have.
minus-squareCrankenstein@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoLet 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.
minus-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoFederation 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.
minus-squarepulsewidth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoSince 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.
Good luck hosting the terabytes of data that mods have.
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.
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.
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.