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Child porn? Video of you in the bathroom that someone took from a hidden camera? Your stolen financial information?
Sure, of course. But the problem is that if you can delete that stuff, someone else can delete stuff that you don't want to be deleted.
One of the biggest challenges with IPFS in my mind is the lack of a story around how to delete content. There may be a variety of reasons to delete things, - Old packages that you simply don't want to version (think npm or pip) - Content that is pirated or proprietary or offensive that needs to be removed from the system But in its current avatar, there isn't an easy way for you to delete data from other people's IPF…
I love the idea of IPFS, but I can't think of a use case not covered by torrents. Would someone mind enlightening me regarding what sets IPFS apart from torrents?
Main feature is automatic data-sharing between distributions. With torrents, everything is siloed, and data is only exchanged between peers of that torrent. IPFS doesn't care /why/ you're getting information or the link you found it from, just that it can find it by its hash. Say you distribute "Julie's Webcast Complete Series" and somebody else distributes "Julie's Webcast - Episode 3, with Russian subtitles," peers…
> peers and seeders from both distributions can share data for the shared content
So does IPFS have "plugins" for different archive/container formats so it can "see" that the underlying video/audio streams are identical between "Julie's Webcast - Episode 3.mp4" and "Julie's Webcast - Episode 3, with Russian subtitles.mkv"?
Otherwise container stream interleaving will play holy hell with any sort of "dumb" block hashing :(
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Sure, of course. But the problem is that if you can delete that stuff, someone else can delete stuff that you don't want to be deleted.
If you don't want something deleted, you can always keep a copy of it yourself.
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I doubt there will every be a way to delete content as every legitimate method of deleting will be commandeered for censorship. Even if they did add something you can never really know the other nodes actually deleted it.
Sometimes, censorship is good. For a silly example, if somebody somehow filled this comment section with images of goatse, it would be nice if we could take that down. I definitely agree from a technical level, you can't ever guarantee the deletion of files on somebody else's machine. So the question is, how do we build systems that enable users to protect their communities, without them becoming yet another tool for…
If I put goatse in this comment, others can see it. Then mods will remove it.
If it were on IPFS, the same would happen except the old version may still be accessible if people are still distributing it.
You'd only come across it if you were deliberately looking at an older version.
One of the biggest challenges with IPFS in my mind is the lack of a story around how to delete content. There may be a variety of reasons to delete things, - Old packages that you simply don't want to version (think npm or pip) - Content that is pirated or proprietary or offensive that needs to be removed from the system But in its current avatar, there isn't an easy way for you to delete data from other people's IPF…
Do you want yet another way of serving content that is subject to censorship and ridiculous content takedown policies?
I've been considering Swarm distributed file system because of its closeness with the Ethereum development. It seems to do the same thing and works already but hardly gets any press. IPFS and the Protocol Lab's Filecoin sale seemed to generate a lot of marketing despite it becoming clearer later that Filecoin is for an unrelated incentivized network. It is hard understand the pros and cons of choosing to use IPFS ove…
For example, if in the future debian is moved to IPFS, then many organizations are likely run local IPFS servers with Debian repos pinned. But if debian is moved to Swarm, I do not think that many organizations will be incentivized - the money are insignificant in the total spending, while engineering effort and organizational overhead (finance) is likely to be very big.
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Main feature is automatic data-sharing between distributions. With torrents, everything is siloed, and data is only exchanged between peers of that torrent. IPFS doesn't care /why/ you're getting information or the link you found it from, just that it can find it by its hash. Say you distribute "Julie's Webcast Complete Series" and somebody else distributes "Julie's Webcast - Episode 3, with Russian subtitles," peers…
> Julie's Webcast - Episode 3, with Russian subtitles > peers and seeders from both distributions can share data for the shared content So does IPFS have "plugins" for different archive/container formats so it can "see" that the underlying video/audio streams are identical between "Julie's Webcast - Episode 3.mp4" and "Julie's Webcast - Episode 3, with Russian subtitles.mkv"? Otherwise container stream interleaving w…
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I see this comment often when IPFS is discussed - but the devil is in the details when it comes to replacing the underlying tech of "the web" with something else. How does an IPFS powered website do dynamic content? User sessions? Is all the client's session data encoded in the IPFS address itself? Even if there's no user sessions, but the page content updates, how do you continuously point clients to fetch the right…
For dynamic data, you need to use a CRDT system like GUN ( https://github.com/amark/gun ). For instance, see P2P Reddit ( http://notabug.io ) which: - Running in production with GUN. - Handling about 42,000 monthly visitors. ( https://www.similarweb.com/website/notabug.io ) - Has done ~1TB in 1 day of decentralized traffic. You can then configure GUN to save to IPFS as the blob/storage engine (or we have filesystem,…
Somehow I forgot about it.
As you say:
> I think all censorship should be deplored. My position is that bits are not a bug.
> — Aaron Swartz (1986 - 2013)
Edit: But I like https://nab.cx/ better. Or at least, as an alternative.
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You think somebody would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies? Warning: image contains racial slurs and swastikas: https://i.imgur.com/0kdxzVR.png A little later in the chat, the developer chimes in and talks about some stuff. Then some people angrily accost them for censoring things. If the Nazis and the racists aren't censored, I don't want to think about the odious content that is. Edit: Here's a thread…
Well, to me these seem like some adolescents trying to be funny and go against the mainstream. They post swastikas and call racial slurs because they know they shouldn't be doing that. They aren't really nazis, right? They don't even know what a nazi is. You can call this "decentralized reddit" a bad place, as it really is, but you can't say it's because it's "full of right-wing people". These adolescents are not "ri…