Can someone tell me what's the catch and what's it really good for?
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Asher Wright
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John Parker
...also what about sharing "secret" static websites? What about server side language?
I can't wrap my head around this.
Easton Butler
Doesn't torrent work the same way?
Asher Nguyen
It's bittorrent+git+more. Some main differences included global scale network deduplication as opposed to per torrent deduplication and versioning.
Ian Collins
So is it good for anything?
Jace Ward
>Can someone tell me what's the catch
it should go without saying, but if nobody mirrors your shit then there will be no mirrors of your shit
>what's it really good for?
good content and popular articles will be mirrored a lot, it will serve as a good intra-planetary file system where latencies might be hours or days
Camden Reed
>what's the catch
The infrastructure for actually storing all those files hasn't yet been finished. filecoin.io
Xavier Hughes
>actually storing all those files
Permanently, I mean--not temporarily.
Colton Evans
It's still pretty niche and not that normie friendly, I think there are some databases and archives on it.
Jason Thomas
That's the question. In practice, it doesn't see much use.
There might be less data on it than, say, on Zeronet.