Sure, but these comments that I refer to are discussing on IPFS, not Filecoin directly, and as such seem bizarrely misguided to me.
Saying IPFS is a useless tool because we already have Dropbox and S3 is completely missing the mark. Not only is IPFS not intended to solve "hosting" as a "problem" (in my eyes, at least), but IPFS goals do not even overlap with S3/Dropbox.
Saying IPFS is about hosting because many people use it for that is like saying BitTorrent is for porn because many people use it for that.
No, it's more generally about hosting any content-addressed data. That's much much more than files/directories, as S3/Dropbox/Sia are doing.
Files and directories are just one particular data structure you can store on IPFS. Think of it as a global unified content-addressed graph database really, and Filecoin can store any arbitrary (sub)graphs within that.
> No, it's more generally about hosting any content-addressed data.
Back to my original points, I don't think it is about hosting the data. It's the location of the data. Eg, a room full of people downloading a large video don't need to leave the room for the majority of the data, they can share the data between each other - seamlessly. Leading to less clogging of the network of data when there's absolutely no need for us to be downloading from youtube/etc.
For me personally, another thing IPFS does is allow access to immutable data. Seeing as websites love to change data on the fly, it's hard to know what someone else saw, compared to what you saw. Was the article modified? Did X political candidate change what s/he's saying on their site? IPFS solves this, and this is my favorite part, tbh.
> Back to my original points, I don't think it is about hosting the data. It's the location of the data. Eg, a room full of people downloading a large video don't need to leave the room for the majority of the data, they can share the data between each other - seamlessly. Leading to less clogging of the network of data when there's absolutely no need for us to be downloading from youtube/etc.
Didn't mean to imply you meant otherwise of course - nor was my intent to argue. I just thought it was an important point for anyone (you or otherwise) to read. I thought it came off a little ... wrong, so my apologies for that, if anything was perceived.
