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The problem with centralised URL shorteners is that the site can shut down for any reason. It doesn’t make money, it isn’t important to the maintainer, there’s
by brad0 8y ago
The problem with centralised URL shorteners is that the site can shut down for any reason.
It doesn’t make money, it isn’t important to the maintainer, there’s a db failure etc.
With a decentralised system it’s a lot more resilient to failure.
- vishnu_ks 8y ago> The problem with centralised URL shorteners is that the site can shut down for any reason. Yeah. The same problem is with IPFS as well. Someone has to seed the content of files in IPFS. If no one is seeding, the file will not be available. I don't honestly think anyone else is going to seed the URL files other than the people who run this site. If this site goes down everything does down as well. > It doesn’t make money, it isn’t important to the maintainer, there’s a db failure etc. If this site doesn't make money it's not important for the maintainer of this site to seed the files as well :)