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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by dingnuts on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:26PM (#44689239)
Even normal HTTP URLs aren't great. If there was ever a case for content-addressable networks like IPFS it's this. Universities should be able to host this data in a decentralized way.
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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by nly on Friday July 25, 2025 @07:22PM (#44689677)
CANs usually have complex hashy URLs, so you still have the compactness problem
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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by justin66 on Saturday July 26, 2025 @10:29AM (#44694391)
A DOI handle type of thing could certainly point to an IPFS address. I can't speak to how you'd do truly decentralized access to the DOI handle. At some point DNS is a thing and somebody needs to host the handle.
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