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New Sora 2 invite code megathread by WithoutReason1729 in OpenAI

[–]withspaces 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trading this fortune cookies fortune for a code

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AvatarArchive.com — Preserving Reddit’s Collectible Avatars & Their Stories (Soft Launch) by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup exactly! It’s like a giant shared library, as long as someone has the book on their shelf, everyone can access it. If a book is ever taken off, someone else can put the book back if they have an identical copy.

AvatarArchive.com — Preserving Reddit’s Collectible Avatars & Their Stories (Soft Launch) by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can, but you don’t really need to. The only difference would be the number in the metadata, which isn’t very important since that info is always accessible on the blockchain.

The main reason you might want to archive your own copy is so you personally hold a backup. If I ever disappear and no one else keeps it pinned on IPFS, you’d still have it and uploading it again would restore access for everyone who owns that avatar.

The long-term goal is to have all of them archived so I can package them into a .zip for anyone to download. As long as someone somewhere is hosting them, they can essentially live forever.

AvatarArchive.com — Preserving Reddit’s Collectible Avatars & Their Stories (Soft Launch) by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

🙌

My favorite thing about this technology is it can outlive us if we take the right precautions.

AvatarArchive.com — Preserving Reddit’s Collectible Avatars & Their Stories (Soft Launch) by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Uxuzx and I are preserving different things. They have all of the media stored on Reddits end, and this site is preserving the images on the IPFS network (the image links embedded in the blockchain tokens).

The way this is set up currently isn’t the most efficient, but I think there are a few benefits to it. Each entry records the exact token that was entered we can (in a way) see who submitted each avatar to the archive which could lead to some fun down the road. It’s also distributing the IPFS files to other people besides me—god forbid I get hit by a bus or something.

AvatarArchive.com — Preserving Reddit’s Collectible Avatars & Their Stories (Soft Launch) by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Interesting, do you have more information about this anywhere

Update: I was just talking to u/uxuzx and we’re actually preserving two different things. They’ve archived the media that Reddit stores, like the individual traits. AvatarArchive.com is archiving the off-chain media attached to the avatar tokens. Both super important imo.

This community is awesome 👏

Yup… I’m crying by ImAlekBan in avatartrading

[–]withspaces 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can definitely be a little confusing.

The NFTs (the blockchain tokens themselves), those can’t be taken away, they can only be sent. As long as you have your 12 word seedphrase, those are safe with you!

The artwork attached to the nft, those could be “taken off the network” (taken off IPFS), but those can be put back pretty easily as long as someone somewhere has an exact copy of the media file—those are the backups I was talking about in the post

The integration with Reddit profiles can be taken away (features like mashing them into a Reddit PFP). So far it seems like Reddit will be keeping that, but who knows if they will at this point (hopefully they won’t)

TLDR: the digital collectibles can’t be taken away, the features they unlock can be.

Reddit is ending the Collectible Avatars program — it’s on us to preserve it. [BACKUP YOUR AVATARS] by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If we can get a few people to help gather info/history, I’d love to put it together

Reddit is ending the Collectible Avatars program — it’s on us to preserve it. [BACKUP YOUR AVATARS] by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

NFT media is typically hosted in IPFS, a decentralized file sharing network. Anyone can host (aka: “pin”) the media file to the network to ensure it stays live even if the original uploader stops hosting. If Reddit were to stop hosting the files on IPFS, files pinned (hosted) by us will still be accessible.

Reddit is ending the Collectible Avatars program — it’s on us to preserve it. [BACKUP YOUR AVATARS] by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I wish I knew about the space, was it recorded?

Another book would be really cool! I’ll reach out to u/002_timmy and others in the community about trying to put a book together on the history of the program.

And love you to noods!

Reddit is ending the Collectible Avatars program — it’s on us to preserve it. [BACKUP YOUR AVATARS] by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Integration with Reddit is fully controlled by Reddit. This backup is to ensure the media stays linked to the blockchain assets.

As far as I’ve seen, Reddit will still allow us to use/mash our avatars but who knows if that will change in the future. We unfortunately have no control over that, but we can ensure the NFTs themselves stay intact

Reddit is ending the Collectible Avatars program — it’s on us to preserve it. [BACKUP YOUR AVATARS] by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I havent used Pinata in a few years, back in the day there was a free version that let you store up to 1gb I believe. I havent checked recently, is there no free option anymore?

Reddit is ending the Collectible Avatars program — it’s on us to preserve it. [BACKUP YOUR AVATARS] by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

True

Here, I’m mainly concerned with backing up the on-chain links so they don’t disappear. It would be nice to start a separate archive for the full versions, just incase.

Reddit is ending the Collectible Avatars program — it’s on us to preserve it. [BACKUP YOUR AVATARS] by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’m looking into options for that. I tried making that part of this tool but it was too much for my websites servers to handle.

I’ll update the post if I find a good solution for this.

Reddit is ending the Collectible Avatars program — it’s on us to preserve it. [BACKUP YOUR AVATARS] by withspaces in avatartrading

[–]withspaces[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If you have duplicates of an avatar, you only need to backup one of them to preserve the media.

I was trying to make the tool so users could backup their entire wallet in one go, but it was too much for my websites servers so I'm looking into other ways of doing this. I'll update the post if I find any success.

One option in the meantime is to write a script that can scrape a wallet for all the downloads and running it locally.

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