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Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by detaro on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @01:43PM (#37755148)
a file on S3 will simply blink out of existence too one day if you stop paying for one specific someone to "pin" it, so I don't think this point makes that much sense without further context?
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Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by simonw on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @02:11PM (#37755509)
I care about making things available to other people. My initial attraction to IPFS was that it looked like it could help me do that - but then I learned that just publishing a file to IPFS doesn't permanently solve that problem for me.

It solves caching/distribution, but it doesn't solve make-this-thing-available.

I've been using and paying for S3 for this purpose for 15+ years. I was hoping IPFS could offer a better alternative, but I don't think it does.

I might consider IPFS in the future if I need to distribute a prohibitively large file and my target audience are the kind of people who can access IPFS.

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Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by Karrot_Kream on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @04:07PM (#37756867)
The Cloudflare gateway works pretty well for this honestly. You can send an HTTP request yourself to the Cloudflare gateway after pinning a file and Cloudflare will generally have it available.
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