Comment on Making a Simple Self-Hosted Photo Gallery With IPFS
rglullis@communick.news 11 months agoYou are really failing to understand how it works, and I am failing to explain it properly.
similar to mysite.com/folder1/IMG.jpg
No. Similar to a Distributed Hash Table. It won’t matter if people go https://mysite or 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.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 months ago
Maybe you’re right, and I fail to find any kind of usefulness for this distributed hash table. I really try though, sorry to inconvenience you, but it sure feels like a BTC ledger without the security nor the longevity.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 11 months ago
As with a lot of things in the crypto adjacent space, they’re offering a solution looking for problems. Some problems (such as storing and distributing files) are essentially solved (many cheap providers for both storage, distribution, and/or both to choose from), while others (such cryptographically secured immutable ledger for provenance tracking in specific use-cases) might benefit from the technology. Knowing which is which and where to adopt what tech is the challenging part.