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Comment by cube00

7 hours ago

If they're no longer using that model they may not be willing to continue using their storage for it.

yes, but a few dedicated hoarders could keep many models alive, and I'm fairly certain the local LLM community has plenty of people who would.

  • They don't. That's the conversation topic.

    Nor do they need to. 99% of everything is crap, and not worth prescribing except for a random sample so future historians can study our crap.

How does this address the previous point? If they are not providing storage, then centralized or decentralized doesn’t make a difference.

Torrent/P2P can only add redundancy, so it’s impossible to have worse availability than a download link?

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    • Well, for a torrent to stay healthy, users have to seed after download, so it can't possibly have the same UX as a standard browser file download unless you want to either kill the ecosystem or hide from the user what is consuming upload bandwidth.

      That said, for large files, I much prefer the UX of a well-designed torrent client like Transmission to my web browser. If nothing else, the downloads are reliably resumable.

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    • > Is there a fully in-browser torrent option that has the same UX as a regular file download in Firefox?

      Opera did back in the day.