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Well, even the hackers post their blog posts nowadays to centralized networks. Why every article has to be on medium.com - I have no idea - but it's very simila

Well, even the hackers post their blog posts nowadays to centralized networks. Why every article has to be on medium.com - I have no idea - but it's very similar pattern the regular users of Internet have.

tracker1 10y ago
Because when you create content, you don't necessarily want to create, or host the system to manage that content. By the same not, more and more projects are just using gh-pages... it's useful, out there, free (of cost to those publishing) and in general works. In the end, there's a lot of options, I think seeing IPFS support baked into the browsers will see a new wave the likes that we saw in the late 90's of customized content, and then tooling that publishes to IPFS will take hold and some things may become more standardized. I think there is a need to get to a DNS pointer that can take one from a name to an IPFS directory (similar to a CNAME) though that may need to be updated for each publish. In the end it can/will all be very interesting to say the least.
- pdimitar 10y ago
  Indeed. I am looking forward to IPFS being more widely deployed. I'd even volunteer if I had the time... :(
- lgierth 10y ago
  Hey -- one of the IPFS devs here. You can actually already use DNS to point a human-readable name to an IPFS hash. Try out `dig +short TXT ipfs.io`, take the `/ipfs/<hash>` from that record, and go to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<hash> https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<hash>. Then try https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io :)
mike_hearn 10y ago
Well, speaking only for myself, I've thought about leaving medium several times but never bothered because: • I don't want an article that goes viral to give me huge bills or crush a tiny server. I want automatic scaling. • I don't want to run or upgrade a web stack. I have a few Linux VPS' and frankly they're painful to maintain. I don't have the time or energy to do this unpaid anymore. If Linux was a better OS maybe this'd be less painful. • It's free • They have a WYSIWYG editor that's OK (but merely OK, it's not great). Too many blog platforms want me to write in markdown or whatever. • If I left Medium I'd lose all the followers who get notified when I write a new blog. • There is no real value to me in doing so except maybe getting a few more features. The main thing keeping me there right now is inertia and disinterest in self hosting.
- ori_b 10y ago
  > I don't want an article that goes viral to give me huge bills or crush a tiny server. I want automatic scaling. I'm not sure that an article that goes viral can do this any more, if you're running a simple static site. Even a million hits a day on my website would only be something like 150 gigabytes of traffic a month, if it were sustained. (I'd expect a much smaller spike). At Amazon's current pricing, that's about $15/month.
  - zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 10y ago
    Which is to say, at amazon's crazy expensive pricing. Hetzner, for example, sell a tera(!)byte for 1,39 EUR.
nickpsecurity 10y ago
It gets more interesting when you think many post ideologically against surveillance states, ad ecosystems, insecure systems, and so on... from Facebook and Twitter. ;)

tracker1 10y ago

Because when you create content, you don't necessarily want to create, or host the system to manage that content. By the same not, more and more projects are just using gh-pages... it's useful, out there, free (of cost to those publishing) and in general works. In the end, there's a lot of options, I think seeing IPFS support baked into the browsers will see a new wave the likes that we saw in the late 90's of customized content, and then tooling that publishes to IPFS will take hold and some things may become more standardized. I think there is a need to get to a DNS pointer that can take one from a name to an IPFS directory (similar to a CNAME) though that may need to be updated for each publish. In the end it can/will all be very interesting to say the least.

pdimitar 10y ago
Indeed. I am looking forward to IPFS being more widely deployed. I'd even volunteer if I had the time... :(
lgierth 10y ago
Hey -- one of the IPFS devs here. You can actually already use DNS to point a human-readable name to an IPFS hash. Try out `dig +short TXT ipfs.io`, take the `/ipfs/<hash>` from that record, and go to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<hash> https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<hash>. Then try https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io :)

mike_hearn 10y ago

Well, speaking only for myself, I've thought about leaving medium several times but never bothered because: • I don't want an article that goes viral to give me huge bills or crush a tiny server. I want automatic scaling. • I don't want to run or upgrade a web stack. I have a few Linux VPS' and frankly they're painful to maintain. I don't have the time or energy to do this unpaid anymore. If Linux was a better OS maybe this'd be less painful. • It's free • They have a WYSIWYG editor that's OK (but merely OK, it's not great). Too many blog platforms want me to write in markdown or whatever. • If I left Medium I'd lose all the followers who get notified when I write a new blog. • There is no real value to me in doing so except maybe getting a few more features. The main thing keeping me there right now is inertia and disinterest in self hosting.

ori_b 10y ago
> I don't want an article that goes viral to give me huge bills or crush a tiny server. I want automatic scaling. I'm not sure that an article that goes viral can do this any more, if you're running a simple static site. Even a million hits a day on my website would only be something like 150 gigabytes of traffic a month, if it were sustained. (I'd expect a much smaller spike). At Amazon's current pricing, that's about $15/month.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 10y ago
  Which is to say, at amazon's crazy expensive pricing. Hetzner, for example, sell a tera(!)byte for 1,39 EUR.

nickpsecurity 10y ago

It gets more interesting when you think many post ideologically against surveillance states, ad ecosystems, insecure systems, and so on... from Facebook and Twitter. ;)