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by zaarn 2832 days ago
A link pointing to the data is fairly useless if nobody is seeding it.

I have torrent files that point to the correct data but it's impossible to obtain because the data they point to isn't being seeded. But just like in IPFS, if I have the correct file I can seed it again simply by adding it to my torrent client into the torrent job.
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X6S1x6Okd1st 2832 days ago
At least a third party can prevent link rot in this situation. Link rot in the standard web is really bad these days. We do have the internet archive that is trying to prevent it, but then you still need a tuple of (URL & access time) and you have to hope that one organization cached it.
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zaarn 2831 days ago
The link rot still occurs on IPFS when the content isn't being seeded, I don't think that's an improvement.
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X6S1x6Okd1st 2831 days ago
Seems way more tractable to me than solving link rot in the regular web.
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zaarn 2831 days ago
Not really, if some niche content with 20 people who read it goes offline, it is very unlikely the content will come back.

And then someone will have to put in the money to pin/host the content anyway if you want to keep it online.

Link rot is solvable with tools such as WARC Proxies.

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cbluth 2831 days ago
> Not really, if some niche content with 20 people who read it goes offline, it is very unlikely the content will come back.

You think these 20 people will stay offline forever?

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zaarn 2831 days ago
You think these 20 people will keep that niche website they read once in their cache forever or even pinned?

Torrents die all the time because nobody bothers to donate bandwidth to strangers for content they barely care about.

How is IPFS different?

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