I never could get Nix working but maybe someone will

        • Obinice@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          Is IPFS something your family and friends check on regularly? I don’t even know what it is.

          Considering your reluctance to give any information about your assertion that such a project using it becomes useless, I’m not sure you know what it is either :P

          • 31337@sh.itjust.works
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            8 days ago

            I haven’t checked it out in years. From my understanding, IPFS aims to be a distributed filesystem that kinda works like Bittorent. If you access a file, you then seed it. Last time I checked it out, the project was jumping on the crypto bandwagon… Just checked out their website now, and don’t know WTF it is.

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      8 days ago

      I sure wonder how this is supposed to function, any explanation anywhere, like a diagram or something?

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      8 days ago

      It relies on libp2p not ipfs. ipfs uses libp2p as its transport