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ipfs is so cool, i wish it was used for more than censorship resistant wikipedia mirrors and crypto shit, its like bittorrent on crack

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@lexd0g yeah! i just wish it had less cryptobros and web3 bullshit around it. like can this just be a really really good way of sharing files and not the future of the internet please
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@username9431 yeah, itd work great for file sharing and sort of as a replacement for a cdn, but it only handles static shit, and some ppls ideas like using blockchain based backends are dumb as shit

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@lexd0g @username9431 i could definitely see it being good for file sharing but idk about being a cdn, it seems a bit too slow for that

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@esm @username9431 more so for putting less stress on a central server, it would probably be slower than a fast centralised (*as in ran by a single large company like cloudflare or fastly) cdn yeah but it should be cheaper than one and probably faster than for example some dudes blog hosted on a cheap vps getting bombarded by a sudden spike in views i think?

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@lexd0g @millions I though it meant "Internet Protocol FileSystem"

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@lexd0g afaicu (as far as i can understand) its basically a sort of decentralized file hosting where the file on a server/node is mirrored to all the other, but idek if thats how it works actually

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