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What I find most fascinating is that this is an .eth link. Starting to see them everywhere. Does anyone know why there’s a “.link” after “.eth”?

hanniabu 5y ago
It's a decentralized site using ENS so you'd need to run an ETH node and IPFS to view it. Cloudflare was generous enough to do the hard part and host those and serve the sites though the .link TLD to support casual browsing.
- mcguire 5y ago
  See also https://eth.link/ https://eth.link/.
erulabs 5y ago
A legitimately useful blockchain application - who knew!?
- verdverm 5y ago
  Except that the sites are actually hosted on a centralized service and mirrors the "decentralized" content? People prefer centralized services ~ who knew???
  - Black101 5y ago
    > People prefer centralized services ~ who knew??? that's not why... it's because they don't know how to access the real source.
    - Qwertious 5y ago
      And why does the real source remain obscure? You can blame the chicken/egg problem, but ultimately the reason why decentralized systems don't overtake centralized systems is that they don't offer much of an advantage over them, so nobody cares enough to learn how to access them. I mean, suppose Cloudflare/whatever goes down and the site is inaccessible: would you: A) Grab the link, and go figure out how to pull it out of IPFS directly B) Grab the link, and paste it into archive.org or C) Go grab a coffee, then come back and refresh the page (because when Cloudflare does go down, it tends to be only down shortly) B and C aren't perfect, but they're close enough. Doing A takes effort and frankly isn't worth it unless you're doing it as a hobby.
    - verdverm 5y ago
      I know how to access these systems yet I steer clear of anything on them. The distributed technologies will never be as fast or reliable as the centralized ones. I'll not go into the quality or nature of the content and ecosystems around them.

hanniabu 5y ago

It's a decentralized site using ENS so you'd need to run an ETH node and IPFS to view it. Cloudflare was generous enough to do the hard part and host those and serve the sites though the .link TLD to support casual browsing.

mcguire 5y ago
See also https://eth.link/ https://eth.link/.

erulabs 5y ago

A legitimately useful blockchain application - who knew!?

verdverm 5y ago
Except that the sites are actually hosted on a centralized service and mirrors the "decentralized" content? People prefer centralized services ~ who knew???
- Black101 5y ago
  > People prefer centralized services ~ who knew??? that's not why... it's because they don't know how to access the real source.
  - Qwertious 5y ago
    And why does the real source remain obscure? You can blame the chicken/egg problem, but ultimately the reason why decentralized systems don't overtake centralized systems is that they don't offer much of an advantage over them, so nobody cares enough to learn how to access them. I mean, suppose Cloudflare/whatever goes down and the site is inaccessible: would you: A) Grab the link, and go figure out how to pull it out of IPFS directly B) Grab the link, and paste it into archive.org or C) Go grab a coffee, then come back and refresh the page (because when Cloudflare does go down, it tends to be only down shortly) B and C aren't perfect, but they're close enough. Doing A takes effort and frankly isn't worth it unless you're doing it as a hobby.
  - verdverm 5y ago
    I know how to access these systems yet I steer clear of anything on them. The distributed technologies will never be as fast or reliable as the centralized ones. I'll not go into the quality or nature of the content and ecosystems around them.