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Can someone explain what is the point of ipfs? I visited the homepage and it mostly shows an information about what it is not and disadvantages of things that a
by varispeed 4y ago
Can someone explain what is the point of ipfs? I visited the homepage and it mostly shows an information about what it is not and disadvantages of things that are not ipfs.
But I am struggling to understand why would I want to use it and how?
For instance, can I host a website on it? Can I put a wordpress on it? How can I share my website with someone? Can I use my own domain?
Or is it like FTP? I really don't get it and feels like I am missing out.
- TOGoS 4y agoIt's a distributed content-addressed datastore, like Git or Bittorrent or Gnutella or Freenet, but maybe trying harder than any of those to be a direct replacement for web servers. I think they aim to make "ipfs://whatever"[1] a URI scheme that's supported in web browsers alongside "http://whatever http://whatever". [1] I can't find the page explaining the URI scheme, but as I recall the double-slash felt vaguely out-of-place when I did once upon a time read it, and I have never been able to take the project as seriously as it seems to want to be taken (flashy website with 'whitepaper' etc) partly because of that detail. The underlying idea about a distributed content-address datastore is a good one, but I feel like they're making it more complicated than it needs to be. https://www.nuke24.net/docs/2015/HashURNs.html https://www.nuke24.net/docs/2015/HashURNs.html is somewhat a response to it.