As I uploaded a video to https://satellite.earth/cdn today just to keep a backup of it, I thought about how wasteful that was since probably many others have already saved that same video in many other places, and I thought about how good it would be if we could just store a hash of these things and everybody would help save and distribute the same piece of content. Oh, what a wonderful world, much less broken links, much less lost media, it would be amazing.
Turns out I just invented IPFS, now I just need 10 years to try to develop this amazing idea into working software that doesn't consume 500GB of RAM 24/7 in everybody's computer forever and still can't download a single text file from a computer in the same LAN.
NIP-96 to the rescue. It's not perfect but will do for now.
PS: Njump now supports kind:1063
And the bandwidth! Omg the bandwidth.
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is it permanent? can we have an API for here.news?
Iroh does it and use blake3 hashing algorithm, which is distributable
The biggest problem with IPFS for me is the bandwidth usage. I have this absurd 1.2 terabyte data cap that was imposed by Xfinity during the pandemic, and I know it's complete garbage because states in the Northeastern US told Xfinity to shut up and roll it back. California didn't, despite being such a "forward-thinking" and "advanced" state.
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