Comment on Making a Simple Self-Hosted Photo Gallery With IPFS

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m 100 percent with you here, I definitely feel like the IPFS “crowd” is trying to find a usefulness, and I hope they do. I’m all for decentralized, protected communication, storage and so on! If you need a proof of that just ask and I’ll deliver.

        But it feels like they are still looking for that usefulness.

        I’m not even here saying “prove me this or that”, but I do question the usability which I understand can be felt like an attack for some people.

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