[fatsdomino001]

What I find most fascinating is that this is an .eth link. Starting to see them everywhere.

Does anyone know why there’s a “.link” after “.eth”?

[hanniabu]

It's a decentralized site using ENS so you'd need to run an ETH node and IPFS to view it. Cloudflare was generous enough to do the hard part and host those and serve the sites though the .link TLD to support casual browsing.

[mcguire]

See also https://eth.link/.

[erulabs]

A legitimately useful blockchain application - who knew!?

[verdverm]

Except that the sites are actually hosted on a centralized service and mirrors the "decentralized" content?

People prefer centralized services ~ who knew???

[Black101]

> People prefer centralized services ~ who knew???

that's not why... it's because they don't know how to access the real source.

[Qwertious]

And why does the real source remain obscure?

You can blame the chicken/egg problem, but ultimately the reason why decentralized systems don't overtake centralized systems is that they don't offer much of an advantage over them, so nobody cares enough to learn how to access them.

I mean, suppose Cloudflare/whatever goes down and the site is inaccessible: would you:

A) Grab the link, and go figure out how to pull it out of IPFS directly

B) Grab the link, and paste it into archive.org

or

C) Go grab a coffee, then come back and refresh the page (because when Cloudflare does go down, it tends to be only down shortly)

B and C aren't perfect, but they're close enough. Doing A takes effort and frankly isn't worth it unless you're doing it as a hobby.

[verdverm]

I know how to access these systems yet I steer clear of anything on them. The distributed technologies will never be as fast or reliable as the centralized ones. I'll not go into the quality or nature of the content and ecosystems around them.