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Re:Decentralized Web Primer by bababooey on Sunday December 10, 2017 @09:03AM (#15891393)
The biggest advantage of centralization is the ability to delete something from the normie web and have it deleted.

Granted, nowadays you have things like the internet archive, but I don't see normal people going along with IPFS for dynamic content like social media as long as you cannot delete things.

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Re:Decentralized Web Primer by NoGravitas on Monday December 11, 2017 @08:38AM (#15896925)
Yeah, one of the problems with content-addressable systems like IPFS is that they don't support the "right to be forgotten". And I've heard a lot of big supporters of content-addressable systems arguing that's a good thing, because links never break. But I don't like a world where I can't take down my own blog post[0], only unlink it from my home page.

[0]: Yes, I'm aware anyone can host a copy of my deleted page. But it will be served on a different URL, and it takes extra work to do, unlike IPFS or similar.

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