IPFS and Their Gateways

Re:IPFS and Their Gateways by sneak on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:06AM (#32424441)

ipfs is a transport, not a storage system. you don't store things "on ipfs" any more than you store things "on http".

http and tcp, other transport systems, also do not have censorship resistance. it's the wrong place for it.

you can use ipfs to build a censorship resistant system, just like you can with tcp, but that is the purview of a higher layer.

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Re:IPFS and Their Gateways by londons_explore on Thursday August 11, 2022 @08:23AM (#32424622)

A new version of IPFS would be both transport system and storage.

I don't think it's possible to reasonably to maintain layering while adding privacy and censorship resistance.

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Re:IPFS and Their Gateways by vorpalhex on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:23AM (#32427131)

This is sort of being upset at your mop because it makes a bad vacuum. These goals are not directly part of ipfs.

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