Re:We Need More Alternatives to Facebook
by jstanley on Monday May 22, 2017 @07:37AM
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There is already DNS integration.
Here is an IPFS path to my blog: /ipns/jes.xxx/
No longer than the corresponding HTTP version: http://jes.xxx/
Of course, DNS isn't distributed or trustless, but if it can work with DNS it can work with the likes of Namecoin or ENS (https://ens.domains/).
Currently you need to prepend an IPFS gateway URL to the IPFS path in order for it to be backwards-comaptible with existing browsers (e.g. https://ipfs.io/ipns/jes.xxx/), but I don't think it will take too many years to get native IPFS support in browsers.
I'm really really excited by what's going possible already, and what's going to become possible soon, with IPFS.
Here is an IPFS path to my blog: /ipns/jes.xxx/
No longer than the corresponding HTTP version: http://jes.xxx/
Of course, DNS isn't distributed or trustless, but if it can work with DNS it can work with the likes of Namecoin or ENS (https://ens.domains/).
Currently you need to prepend an IPFS gateway URL to the IPFS path in order for it to be backwards-comaptible with existing browsers (e.g. https://ipfs.io/ipns/jes.xxx/), but I don't think it will take too many years to get native IPFS support in browsers.
I'm really really excited by what's going possible already, and what's going to become possible soon, with IPFS.