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by oxygen_crisis 605 days ago
You could let users choose what to mirror, and one of those choices could be a big bucket of all the least available stuff, for pure preservationists who don't want to focus on particular segments of the data.

Sort of like the bittorrent algorithm that favors retrieving and sharing the least-available chunks if you haven't assigned any priority to certain parts.