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Re:HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permane... by davidgerard on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:59PM (#28900183)
IPNS doesn't work. Whenever you press them on this point, they'll admit it doesn't work.

But IPFS has the crypto problem of conflating the stuff that works now with the stuff that's hypothetical in its marketing, and not admitting that the latter is janky nonsense that doesn't bloody work.

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Re:HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permane... by PLDiscordian on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:26AM (#28906402)
Sorry, I don't know when you last tried out IPFS, but IPNS does in fact work: https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/ipns/

Again, I'm not sure when it wasn't working, or when it began working (it's always worked since I've been around), but IPNS has made huge strides, I use it every day. Even https://ipfs.io is using IPNS, it's very popular.

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Re:HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permane... by Gigachad on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:34PM (#28900394)
Yeah this is what I saw 4 years ago. Shame it still isn't working. Insane how crypto projects spend all this effort on flashy landing pages, marketing, hype. But if you actually try to use the product, you find out it just doesn't actually work.
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