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  • Yes, the point with Iroh and IPFS is that they are content-adressed, and therefore addressable, so they massively deduplicate what is uploaded, and as a consequence there is hardly any redundant data, if not no redundant data, and that makes it more efficient, reducing the bandwidth and space required on all nodes, so if something is archived once, then all subsequent archives of that same thing will be just references to the original file, and will be very resilient since It’s like a torrent (you can seed, pin, or hydrate the content so it won’t disappear so easily).


  • I don’t think so if it’s not in a single central server. Although I can be wrong, that’s not the point I mean by uncensorable and undeletable, what I mean is something like a government, agency or person can’t arbitrarily try to shut down, censor or delete something legitimate that’s archived, like has actually happened with Wayback Machine (and what’s thus one of the main reason why I propose this); of course I don’t want CSAM, doxxing, GPDR violations or illegal content whatsoever, and if the authors wants their content deleted, they obviously have the right to be forgotten, but there’s also situations when a web is totally taken down in a illegal or arbitrary way, or when something turns into lost media or almost lost media, and that’s when this is valuable, along with making the collective memory more reliable and durable.




  • Repost: I don’t think so, because IPFS is just more sort of a framework and platform to those kind of applications, something as Nostr or some types of S3 storages, or a CDN. What’s necessary thus is all the business logic, the specialized nodes and clients, the metadata, identifiers and namespaces so that that application is not just a directory spread over IPFS (or in our case, Iroh, which is much better than the vanilla IPFS node, Kubo). Something also like in HTTPS you don’t see a lot of loose hyperlinks, but rather applications that use HTTPS underneath as another layer.


  • I don’t think so, because IPFS is just more sort of a framework and platform to those kind of applications, something as Nostr or some types of S3 storages, or a CDN. What’s necessary thus is all the business logic, the specialized nodes and clients, the metadata, identifiers and namespaces so that that application is not just a directory spread over IPFS (or in our case, Iroh, which is much better than the vanilla IPFS node, Kubo). Something also like in HTTPS you don’t see a lot of loose hyperlinks, but rather applications that use HTTPS underneath as another layer.


  • Yes, although in theory you can completely do without a Blockchain and instead use the Holochain for the entire transaction book and the backlog, although without anything economic involved since an archive has to be accessible to anyone — except perhaps some small profit in tokens for seeding, pinning and/or archiving websites or any other type of content, so that there is an incentive to make it functional. Using small-world topology to optimize such CAS also sounds attractive.












  • It’s possible in theory, hard in practice. You can, for example, look if they have any repo with their fork (if they forked) or mirror (if just mirrored for one reason or another). Well, that’s the easy part. But even if so, you could think that you can’t know if the code in the repo is the same as the running one. But that’s not always true, as for example if the code has reproducibility guarantees; just like in F-Droid, or in Nix, or in Guix. There are projects that make it more localized, at the application level, publishing everything from the compilation recipes along with their scripts and DBOM, to their default configurations. If they claim that the program they are running follows just those structures but you cannot reproduce it when compiling or self-hosting, you may become suspicious. Of course, divergence adds another problem here, and the method is not perfect either since it depends on there being a certain initial assertion to test against your evidence, but it is much better than nothing. And I don’t know in any case why you would join an instance that claims to be reproducible but does not give access to its code or one that gives access to non-reproducible code.




  • I won’t defend the OP because he’s surely just an embarrassing attention seeker, but in return I’ll say that you can’t really say that there isn’t misandry out there, especially on the leftist side of Lemmy, just as you can’t say that there isn’t a black swan out there (i.e. the induction problem), and in fact there are a lot of misandric women, and you can’t just rationalize it as a “valid reaction to centuries of oppression” because it’s a genetic fallacy. (where someone is held responsible for something they were not involved in because they were born much later, just because they are a descendant of that group).