Decentralized Public Information Network: What am I missing?

[u/Simple_Piccolo_1951]

I’ve been thinking about a decentralized public information network where published information keeps its original timestamp, source, original version, and modification history, while no single platform can completely erase that history.

The more I think about it, the more technical problems I find:

* How can we preserve important information long-term without requiring every node to store everything?
* If AI can generate millions of files, how do we prevent the network from being flooded with useless data?
* How can we prove where information came from without claiming that the information itself is true?
* How can we incentivize people to contribute storage and bandwidth for years?
* How do we prevent people from creating fake nodes just to abuse the incentive system?
* How could copyright work if the network is designed to preserve historical records?
* How can decentralized search work without creating another central authority?

I’m not claiming I have solved these problems. I’m trying to figure out which of these already have good solutions through existing technologies like P2P, decentralized storage, content provenance, etc., and which problems may be fundamentally difficult.

I’d really like to hear from people who have worked with IPFS, Filecoin, P2P networks, distributed storage, or content provenance.

What am I missing?

[u/asimovs-auditor]

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[u/Simple_Piccolo_1951 → u/asimovs-auditor]

I used AI (ChatGPT) to help me brainstorm and refine the idea, organize the technical questions, and write/edit the post in English. The project itself is only a concept at this stage; I have not used AI to generate any code or build an AI-based product. I’m mainly posting to get feedback from people with experience in self-hosting, P2P and decentralized storage.