This thread by Zooko is worth reading to consider just how much we depend on a *single* institution to keep most contemporary cultural production alive. Yet much is *not* archived (eg YouTube!) https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1271151348273143808
The fediverse has not yet done better, but could (I left a rant here:) https://twitter.com/dustyweb/status/1350938649454669830
Distributed storage of content is a great point to draw attention to and is currently addressed by a number of systems that seem to be quite usable from practical perspective - like IPFS or GNUnet.
There was a discussion in Matrix project about pushing media files (which occupy gigabytes on typical server storage) into IPFS but Matrix is specifically a case *not* to as it's a private messenger.
Mastodon however sounds like a perfect place for it.
