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m
I would like to start archiving attachments too, there were two messages this week that without the attachment didn't make sense but the link requires to authenticate to see them, any ideas? I would like something long term like ipfs or archive.org I'm open to suggestions
i
Does "attachments" include the rich link preview text + image? Or is it just limited to stuff that people attach manually (images, text snippets, etc)?
m
manually attached files on slack
a screenshot, a gif, a video directly attached here instead of linked from somewhere else
n
dfinity.org is an IPFS with compute capability, i.e. you can put your whole search engine on there
and it supports DNS and HTTP requests and all that
its release is being finalized though, so you might have to wait a couple weeks for documentation to be complete
(And yes, despite the marketing fluff, I am sure this is a legitimate project and not a crypto scam. I don't hold any tokens.)
m
I was looking at https://filecoin.io/ too, I want it to be not hosted in a server that I have to maintain
n
You don’t have to maintain an Internet Computer (Dfinity) canister, apart from putting a few tokens in it for the hosting cost.
It can function as static storage 😇
Just an idea anyway
m
yes, I would love to just have it stored as content addressed, I don't like breaking links 🙂
with ipfs you can host a node and pin your files, I may do that in the history.futureofcoding.org server
but if filecoin or similar is cheap or some people from the community can pin it it would be great
another one is archive.org and do some donations, not sure they have an api or something
n
IPFS isn’t a hosting solution, because it doesn’t incentivise any servers to host files. It requires benevolent cooperating parties. Filecoin is that incentivization mechanism. So is Dfinity’s tech. But I only know the latter in detail.
And I would be surprised if you could use archive.org like a Dropbox. If so, I would think everyone would be abusing it for that 😕
m
we could add an indirection in the middle that resolves to dfinity or filecoin or ipfs and see what works
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do you have an idea of the cost to use dfinity?
can you "pre pay" or something?
n
The cost is determined by market forces which should be quite low, because unlike most crypto projects they have a low replication factor (7x) and have professional (democratically-elected) data centres competing for hosting and compute rights.
And yeah, they use a prepay model. You create a canister, put tokens in it, and get X years of hosting. Anyone can top up those tokens I believe.
I don’t have concrete cost numbers though because their platform is just launching right now (maybe a few weeks left), so the market numbers aren’t quite available. Might be a “stay tuned” thing for the coming weeks 🙂
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