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No, it's more generally about hosting any content-addressed data. That's much much more than files/directories, as S3/Dropbox/Sia are doing. Files and director

No, it's more generally about hosting any content-addressed data. That's much much more than files/directories, as S3/Dropbox/Sia are doing. Files and directories are just one particular data structure you can store on IPFS. Think of it as a global unified content-addressed graph database really, and Filecoin can store any arbitrary (sub)graphs within that.

notheguyouthink 9y ago
> No, it's more generally about hosting any content-addressed data. Back to my original points, I don't think it is about hosting the data. It's the location of the data. Eg, a room full of people downloading a large video don't need to leave the room for the majority of the data, they can share the data between each other - seamlessly. Leading to less clogging of the network of data when there's absolutely no need for us to be downloading from youtube/etc. For me personally, another thing IPFS does is allow access to immutable data. Seeing as websites love to change data on the fly, it's hard to know what someone else saw, compared to what you saw. Was the article modified? Did X political candidate change what s/he's saying on their site? IPFS solves this, and this is my favorite part, tbh.
- lgierth 9y ago
  > Back to my original points, I don't think it is about hosting the data. It's the location of the data. Eg, a room full of people downloading a large video don't need to leave the room for the majority of the data, they can share the data between each other - seamlessly. Leading to less clogging of the network of data when there's absolutely no need for us to be downloading from youtube/etc. You're absolutely right here of course
  - notheguyouthink 9y ago
    Didn't mean to imply you meant otherwise of course - nor was my intent to argue. I just thought it was an important point for anyone (you or otherwise) to read. I thought it came off a little ... wrong, so my apologies for that, if anything was perceived.
    - lgierth 9y ago
      Not at all :) There's multiple important points about IPFS and I always forget at least one, so thanks :)

notheguyouthink 9y ago

> No, it's more generally about hosting any content-addressed data. Back to my original points, I don't think it is about hosting the data. It's the location of the data. Eg, a room full of people downloading a large video don't need to leave the room for the majority of the data, they can share the data between each other - seamlessly. Leading to less clogging of the network of data when there's absolutely no need for us to be downloading from youtube/etc. For me personally, another thing IPFS does is allow access to immutable data. Seeing as websites love to change data on the fly, it's hard to know what someone else saw, compared to what you saw. Was the article modified? Did X political candidate change what s/he's saying on their site? IPFS solves this, and this is my favorite part, tbh.

lgierth 9y ago
> Back to my original points, I don't think it is about hosting the data. It's the location of the data. Eg, a room full of people downloading a large video don't need to leave the room for the majority of the data, they can share the data between each other - seamlessly. Leading to less clogging of the network of data when there's absolutely no need for us to be downloading from youtube/etc. You're absolutely right here of course
- notheguyouthink 9y ago
  Didn't mean to imply you meant otherwise of course - nor was my intent to argue. I just thought it was an important point for anyone (you or otherwise) to read. I thought it came off a little ... wrong, so my apologies for that, if anything was perceived.
  - lgierth 9y ago
    Not at all :) There's multiple important points about IPFS and I always forget at least one, so thanks :)