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Blog-ish websites are unreliable even when they have real hosting. If you put it on someone's laptop it gets so much worse. To me, the reliability boost is the killer feature of IPFS.

> You don't really need a globally addressable immutable file storage, because unless you're dealing with static images, a lot of files DO change all the time, and people want to store and share files privately.

While it boosts reliability, IPFS is not globally immutable. If you share a file with a limited scope, it won't stick around forever.

Though from a quick search you can't easily keep a file private, that's not great.



you can just store an encrypted file or archive


You can, but the whole thing is built on ease of use, and you don't get ease of use if you have to manually encrypt your selfies.


In a forward-secure manner?




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