You know the joke about mathematicians numbering jokes, and how a visitor tells a new joke by saying a number they've never heard? Well, #IPFS is the same, but for files/collections of files.
@encthenet same problem then: bad jokes will forever clog up desirable numbers ;)
Not in IPFS!
In IPFS every joke effectively gets its own number, with no two jokes ending up with the same one, so no clogging.
@volkris still have bad jokes clogging up the system.
@janl nah, because if the joke is bad nobody is going to request it and so it will sit on a single node and not be distributed.
@volkris you’re missing or obstinately ignoring the point my critique: the fact that there are no deletions makes IPFS incompatible with human societal needs.
(I last looked into this a few years ago, of that aus been fixed, that info has not made it to me yet, but the engagement on the joke suggests it’s not)
But that’s no different from any other internet activity.
I mean here on Mastodon / Fediverse there are no real deletions either.
Yeah, you can send out a deletion request, but it’s all voluntary, exactly the same as IPFS.
Welcome to the internet.
Or I guess, welcome to reality. From the first publication of a newspaper there has never been real deletion. Anything you put out there can stay around as long as anybody who wants to keep it.
@volkris you clearly have no idea what you’re talking a out. I’m ready to stop engaging now and enjoy my weekend. ✌️
Well, the W3C might know a thing or two if you’d like some light weekend reading on the topic.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#delete-activity-outbox
But sure, have a nice weekend.
