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by CarolineW
2833 days ago
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You say: IPFS promises nothing, nor tries to, in the way of permanent archiving. From the IPFS web site[0]: Humanity's history is deleted daily ... IPFS keeps every version of your files and makes it simple to set up resilient networks for mirroring of data. This is clearly stating that the system keeps every version of your files, and it says nothing about "pinning", or the fact that the files will, in fact, not be kept. At best the web site is misleading, at worst it is simply lying. I don't yet know with the IPFS really is, nor what it really does, but it's statements like that on the IPFS web site that makes me distrustful of the hype. [0] https://ipfs.io/#why |
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So I don't really buy into the hype-drama. So many people are concerned with hype.
Anyway, to your specific points - if you understand IPFS those comments are not entirely off board. However I can understand why they would lead people astray. In reality I see those comments, ie human history being deleted, as a reference to the mutable web. I can find a post on Reddit and today it is meaningful, tomorrow it might be deleted. In a general immutable system, if I reference an immutable address to the content I care about I will always find exactly that content. Whether or not it exists permanently is another issue, one that I don't care about honestly - I care that what exists can't change out from under you. Just by viewing data in an IPFS-like system naturally makes you own it, as you effectively download a copy of it. No one can take that from you.
Now, whether or not you decide to permanently hold onto the data you want is another story. But again, permanency is not likely to be "solved" by anyone.. and honestly, given how so much "content" can be illegal, I don't think we ever can or should solve the permanency issue.