Reminder that we need a /IPFS/ general
Jow Forums has to create an easy to understand guide to get people into IPFS so we can redpill the rest of this site to at least use it for file sharing.
IPFS
Adam Long
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Eli Hill
note that the official site: ipfs.io
Christopher Gonzalez
IPFS on its own is not enough. You need distributed applications. Maybe Urbit will deliver them.
Connor White
>>coinmonks
opt in cryptominer botnet confirmed
Daniel Mitchell
zeronet?
Hudson Diaz
So advanced it's naming less bit types by bigger real objects...
Can't they call it 16byte word instead of ship? Why everybody got to reinvent whole wording about how computation is done?
Carter Phillips
This, plus filecoin sounds like a nice way to ensure it's not just pedos hosting each other's CP like what happened with Freenet.
>inb4 "b-blockchain!! m-meme!!"
Unlike stuff like Skycoin, IPFS is conceptually completely separate from filecoin. It's just an extra incentive for normies to participate. It doesn't even need to be worth a lot on the Jow Forums tier exchanges - it could just function as a digital token much like reddit karma if IPFS ever gets big enough.
Jordan Anderson
>This, plus filecoin sounds like a nice way to ensure it's not just pedos hosting each other's CP like what happened with Freenet.
I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Are you saying IPFS does not protect privacy so it makes it harder for people to host illegal stuff?
Sebastian Young
No, I'm saying the same guys are also making their own cryptocurrency that is "mined" passively using disk space ("Proof of Storage", I guess), the idea being that you'll get paid to dedicate a certain amount of storage to hosting and caching random IPFS objects. Which should in theory help increase adoption and make it spread more among normies (which is important, otherwise if you're always the only one hosting your objects because you're the only one using IPFS in the first place then that defeats the entire purpose).
In contrast, Freenet ended up being abandoned by almost everyone because nobody cared, except that pedophiles found it really convenient so they kept using it and it turned into something almost exclusively hosted by pedos for pedos.
>anonymity
IIRC ipfs has no built in anonymity, because it aims to follow UNIX philosophy. Last I checked they were working on tailored i2p support for that, but the advantage of this approach is you can just as well route it over Tor or anything else you want.
Owen Fisher
Any opinions on Tahoe-LAFS? Cursory research makes it sound pretty good too, but I almost never hear it discussed compared to IPFS.