Re:Putting This Blog on IPFS
by MrEldritch on Thursday September 20, 2018 @12:18AM
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DNS works just fine for IPNS content-hash-addresses too, and heck, you can do that right now. You just use that, the same way you'd use anything else - just say that dweb.foo.xyz is associated with a particular IPNS address (and www.foo.xyz can be the regular ol' web address).
Here's something of a search engine for IPFS: https://ipfs-search.com/
It works by crawling the DHT, though I don't think it's quite perfect yet. As for URLs vs Hashes, you point URLs to a hash through DNS TXT records.
It feels like the dark ages before altavista, and you had to know the url. Still, a url was more memorable to pass friends by email, than a hash.
Will there be ipfs search engines and wouldn't that just be bittorrent?
Also browsers remember urls... If everything goes through your local gateway, it's all just /hash, hard to remember / re-discover? Or is the plan also to move away from browsers?