Comment on Making a Simple Self-Hosted Photo Gallery With IPFS
rglullis@communick.news 11 months agoThere are two aspects you are ihnoring here:
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with IPFS you can do it from your own computer
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it is content addressable, files are addressed by their hash, which means you can have a system, e.g, different Lemmy instance admins can share a IPFS server and it gets automatically deduplicated, or you can have something like trustless package managers that run without the need of a central authority.
Might not be useful for you, but it should be useful for a lot of people.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 months ago
Okay for the hash (similarly to mysite.com/folder1/IMG.jpg but a string op numbers) buf I upload images and share them from my pc too.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
You are really failing to understand how it works, and I am failing to explain it properly.
No. Similar to a Distributed Hash Table. It won’t matter if people go
https://mysiteor yoursite`. With a DHT, all you need is the hash of the file, and your node will be able to locate all servers who have the relevant pieces of data and send it to you.Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 months ago
I actually do know how it works, but I sure have a hard time understanding the usefulness.
rglullis@communick.news 11 months ago
Then we are going to go in circles: people already described use-cases and your knee-jerk reaction is to respond with “but I can do *something vaguely related* with OVH”.
This gets tiring, and I’d rather do something else with my time. Have a good one.