This is closer to a shower thought, given I don’t really know much about how ActivityPub works. Has anyone, or is it even possible to, made an instance designed to work as say a FUSE file system?

I was mostly just thinking about how hard UIs are to make and thought “what if the content was the UI”.

  • EthicalAI@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I thought the blockchain paid you for your hosting contribution and linked to the chunks on your instance so people knew where to look.

    • DekkerNSFW@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      No, the latter is done via a DHT, while the former is a layer on top of IPFS (Filecoin, I guess, as verdare said). Default IPFS behaviour is that you just cache whatever you download, and serve it to others if they request the same file from the network. Basically a huge bittorrent kinda thing.