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The comment on IPFS is a bit idealistic. > There is no single service that can go down [...] > Each piece of content is loaded entirely independently, [...]

The comment on IPFS is a bit idealistic. > There is no single service that can go down [...] > Each piece of content is loaded entirely independently, [...] Both of these statements can be true, but in fact, what ends up happening is someone puts their site on a pinning service like Piñata or Infura, and then it's right back to being centralized and trackable. Filecoin helps decentralize who pins, but even then, one ends up using a pretty interface like web3.storage since using the real service is just too much overhead for just pushing a page. I'm personally a big fan of IPFS, but I'd use it to make an entire site reliable for users who care to self-pin.

oehpr 4y ago
>and then it's right back to being centralized and trackable. I haven't been following IPFS very closely recently, but this doesn't track for me at all. So people pin some content on a big node. Once you download it, now it's on YOUR node, and your friend can still get it off you. Your node is just as authoritative as the big one. They disappear and IPFS can carry on. I remember people criticizing NFT's using IPFS links as "not solving anything" and I was truly truly baffled at why anyone would think that. You could easily hold on to your image on a thumb drive, or absolutely any method of backing content up. If every single copy on the internet got nuked, you could just publish from your usb drive again and suddenly it's back up, available for all to see. More to the point, anyone could do that. So anyone (including you) with even a slight motivation to preserve that data could authoritatively do so. disclaimer: I do not like NFT's. I don't like them practically, I don't like them abstractly, and I don't like them culturally. It's just this is one criticism thrown at NFTs I don't agree with, IPFS makes this aspect work.

oehpr 4y ago

>and then it's right back to being centralized and trackable. I haven't been following IPFS very closely recently, but this doesn't track for me at all. So people pin some content on a big node. Once you download it, now it's on YOUR node, and your friend can still get it off you. Your node is just as authoritative as the big one. They disappear and IPFS can carry on. I remember people criticizing NFT's using IPFS links as "not solving anything" and I was truly truly baffled at why anyone would think that. You could easily hold on to your image on a thumb drive, or absolutely any method of backing content up. If every single copy on the internet got nuked, you could just publish from your usb drive again and suddenly it's back up, available for all to see. More to the point, anyone could do that. So anyone (including you) with even a slight motivation to preserve that data could authoritatively do so. disclaimer: I do not like NFT's. I don't like them practically, I don't like them abstractly, and I don't like them culturally. It's just this is one criticism thrown at NFTs I don't agree with, IPFS makes this aspect work.