• linearchaos@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      A post mentioning IPFS that hasn’t been downvoted into the mantle? I’m impressed.

      It seems that most people don’t have any idea that it’s not reliant upon blockchain.

      Somebody asked the other day about hosting websites on cell phones. I mentioned that IPFS would be just about perfect for that and everyone got out their pitchforks.

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        11 months ago

        basically like bittorrent but the entire network is just one swarm and blocks are deduplicated and everyone keeps the stuff they accessed for a while so peers near to them can fetch it from them

        it also has a dht, a pubsub like system for fast message propagation and changeable content and is built to be future proof on the protocol level (everything is modular and self describing and can be swapped out)

        oh and also everything can link to everything by its CID (content identifier)

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      I’m already using it, but just for notes so there aren’t any measurable improvements over the traditional methods. It’s still cool to see it work though.