@shipp @tomodachi94 Isn't filecoin a separate project...

@shipp @tomodachi94 Isn't filecoin a separate project built on IPFS? I haven't used IPFS specifically, but my experience with P2P file sharing protocols is that they work just fine without money trading hands. (In fact, most of my experience with them is from before Bitcoin existed, so it's jarring to see them lumped in with cryptocurrencies.)

Someone is anyway already paying to host nix packages over (I assume) https; surely they could also pay to pin the files on IPFS.

Like 13 Jul 2023 at 0:52 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

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James Cook

@shipp @tomodachi94 (And by paying to pin, I mean paying the hosting costs of a server pinning the files.)

13 Jul 2023 at 0:53 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

Tomodachi94

@falsifian @shipp Yup! There's actually some services (like Pinata) that used to let you do that; I'm not sure if they still do.

13 Jul 2023 at 4:35 | Open on floss.social

Tomodachi94

@falsifian @shipp From my understanding, it is, but many of the IPFS contributors also have done work on Filecoin.

(I agree, I find it jarring that you can't really post about IPFS without someone immediately bringing up the crypto users.)

13 Jul 2023 at 4:33 | Open on floss.social