Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
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Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#2> I think this issues are going to continue till some big use cases emerge and protocol becomes main stream.
Nailed it. Remember Freenet? https://web.archive.org/web/20130908073158/http://www.thegua...
There's always a chance of Freenet being the IBM Simon and Apple Newton and IPFS is the iPhone. Or, the VFX1 vs the Oculus. But no. While surely the tech has evolved from a shitty Java app as Freenet was, all those other examples had immediately obvious use cases and just needed the tech to catch up which it did.
Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#3> I think this issues are going to continue till some big use cases emerge and protocol becomes main stream. Nailed it. Remember Freenet? https://web.archive.org/web/20130908073158/http://www.thegua... There's always a chance of Freenet being the IBM Simon and Apple Newton and IPFS is the iPhone. Or, the VFX1 vs the Oculus. But no. While surely the tech has evolved from a shitty Java app as Freenet was, all those oth…
I remember discussions of Freenet on "news for nerds" forums in the early millennium, and it was obvious that that particular technology was doomed and would never be widely adopted. You see, people were reluctant to run a Freenet instance because that would involve hosting and passing on content from other users as well. While all Freenet content was encrypted, people were horrified by the thought that if the crypto algorithm were ever broken, they would suddenly be revealed to have been hosting child pornography on their computers (unwittingly, but still). Thus, distributed platforms today must allow people to pick and choose what content they wish to host.
Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#4> I think this issues are going to continue till some big use cases emerge and protocol becomes main stream. Nailed it. Remember Freenet? https://web.archive.org/web/20130908073158/http://www.thegua... There's always a chance of Freenet being the IBM Simon and Apple Newton and IPFS is the iPhone. Or, the VFX1 vs the Oculus. But no. While surely the tech has evolved from a shitty Java app as Freenet was, all those oth…
I remember discussions of Freenet on "news for nerds" forums in the early millennium, and it was obvious that that particular technology was doomed and would never be widely adopted. You see, people were reluctant to run a Freenet instance because that would involve hosting and passing on content from other users as well. While all Freenet content was encrypted, people were horrified by the thought that if the crypto…
A good reminder that not everybody has reasoned opinions or should be listened to.
Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#5> I think this issues are going to continue till some big use cases emerge and protocol becomes main stream. Nailed it. Remember Freenet? https://web.archive.org/web/20130908073158/http://www.thegua... There's always a chance of Freenet being the IBM Simon and Apple Newton and IPFS is the iPhone. Or, the VFX1 vs the Oculus. But no. While surely the tech has evolved from a shitty Java app as Freenet was, all those oth…
It seems more likely that IPFS is the GM-NAA I/O to something in the future's OS/360. The concept is cool, but it doesn't seem like it's there yet.
Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#6> I think this issues are going to continue till some big use cases emerge and protocol becomes main stream. Nailed it. Remember Freenet? https://web.archive.org/web/20130908073158/http://www.thegua... There's always a chance of Freenet being the IBM Simon and Apple Newton and IPFS is the iPhone. Or, the VFX1 vs the Oculus. But no. While surely the tech has evolved from a shitty Java app as Freenet was, all those oth…
I remember discussions of Freenet on "news for nerds" forums in the early millennium, and it was obvious that that particular technology was doomed and would never be widely adopted. You see, people were reluctant to run a Freenet instance because that would involve hosting and passing on content from other users as well. While all Freenet content was encrypted, people were horrified by the thought that if the crypto…
It was also terribly slow.
Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#7> I think this issues are going to continue till some big use cases emerge and protocol becomes main stream. Nailed it. Remember Freenet? https://web.archive.org/web/20130908073158/http://www.thegua... There's always a chance of Freenet being the IBM Simon and Apple Newton and IPFS is the iPhone. Or, the VFX1 vs the Oculus. But no. While surely the tech has evolved from a shitty Java app as Freenet was, all those oth…
IPFS is waiting for the use case to catch up. If/when we start to colonized Mars, the InterPlanetary File System might actually be useful. (Only being somewhat tongue-in-cheek.)
Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#8How long does it take to propagate an edit with this? The previous PoC I saw (2+ years ago) worked from a static dump from the Kiwix project.
Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#9> I think this issues are going to continue till some big use cases emerge and protocol becomes main stream. Nailed it. Remember Freenet? https://web.archive.org/web/20130908073158/http://www.thegua... There's always a chance of Freenet being the IBM Simon and Apple Newton and IPFS is the iPhone. Or, the VFX1 vs the Oculus. But no. While surely the tech has evolved from a shitty Java app as Freenet was, all those oth…
IPFS is waiting for the use case to catch up. If/when we start to colonized Mars, the InterPlanetary File System might actually be useful. (Only being somewhat tongue-in-cheek.)
Small static sites like this one sound like a good use case: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZCGRVJNjVJtEqtS2HwhELszNBSU2XNwuBkFEQ...
Re: Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember discussions of Freenet on "news for nerds" forums in the early millennium, and it was obvious that that particular technology was doomed and would never be widely adopted. You see, people were reluctant to run a Freenet instance because that would involve hosting and passing on content from other users as well. While all Freenet content was encrypted, people were horrified by the thought that if the crypto…
It was also terribly slow.
Indeed, I think it's the slowness which killed it more than anything.
Also I remember it supported a very limited subset of CSS even for the time and no way to make websites dynamic since there were no JS, that for sure did not help.