This FAQ from github is a helpful summary of human-readable IPFS via IPNS:
https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/16#issuecomment-232497229
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I love IPFS but how exactly does IPFS/IPNS solve the DDOS problem? The FAQ entry on this is not very convincing [1]. [1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/171
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5 sourcesFor me, the "Back it up in a place you trust" is coming back to square 1 of the parent poster's problem. I actually do have my photos on (a few) disks and computers, not on Google, and I still have the problem that I want to hurl money somewhere and say, "use this money..."
I'm kinda hoping for some open-source solution to emerge based on IPFS or the like, which would let me easily control replication of my photos & vids over a few local disks (probably via some local NAS machine[s]), and some online paid pinning service.
There are apparently some efforts towards something like that in the IPFS community [1][2], but no clear winner yet I think, or at least especially no good UI/UX for this yet.
[1]: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47
[2]: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/issues/157
edit: some random service/startup which I just goo
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gled up which apparently tries to fit into this area, linking here to hopefully match them with potentially interested users, and thus maybe help them reach critical mass: https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/846e64/photo_backup_a...
> But, if you put it on IPFS, what hosts the wallet, and wallet API?
Which wallet? You can use whatever wallet you want which supports the functionality the DApp requires. There are dozens of wallets, some are in-browser.
> Also, last I checked, IPFS is not censorship resistant: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/36#issuecomment-140567411
While I didn't mention anything about censorship, I suggest reading that entire thread and its continuation. All it discusses is the ability to have curated blocklists. It's up to you whether you want to use them or not.
What I did mention is that you don't have to use any specific replication protocol. Don't like IPFS? Use something else.
If you did want to use IPFS and you're concerned about censorship, then consider that IPFS is a distributed hash table protocol with some default client rules. If you
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don't use their default bootstrapping nodes, you can create your own IPFS network. In fact, IPFS is totally usable in an isolated local network, or even over a sneaker net.
But, if you put it on IPFS, what hosts the wallet, and wallet API?
Also, last I checked, IPFS is not censorship resistant:
https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/36#issuecomment-140567411
In DappsFun fact: Beaker used to support IPFS[0] and the IPFS creator used to work with the Dat project[1].
[0]https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/480#issuecomm...
[1]https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/119#issuecomment-21827839...
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