I keep feeling frustrated as valuable knowledge for my different hobbies over the last years became siloed away in corporate social media. I believe wikis could be a way out, but can we have decentralized, federated wiki software that can kind of talk among each other?

    • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

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      Question

      Explain IPFS as if I was five

      Response

      Sure! You know when you want to show your friend a specific toy in your toy box, you point it out directly? That’s kind of how the Internet usually works too - it looks for the specific place (like a website’s server) where information is kept.

      But, imagine if you could find that same toy even if it was in a different box or at a friend’s house, as long as you knew what it looked like. IPFS, which stands for InterPlanetary File System, does something similar for the Internet. It doesn’t just look for where information is stored, but what the information is. This way, even if the information gets moved, it can still be found because IPFS knows what it’s looking like, not just where it used to be!

      tldr sort of like P2P content sharing. Wiki content is just files at the end of the day.

      • crashex@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Sounds cool. Does that mean we need heavy disks full of data everywhere or is there a magicky way around it?

        • breadsmasher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          iirc You “pin” content to access, which means you’re also then hosting it. You wouldn’t need to necessarily store the entirety of wiki for example unless its held in like, data files rather than page per content.

          Im not fully up to scratch of the intricacies on IPFS, just thought it sounded like a possible solution to your use-case

          • LudrolEnglish
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            1 year ago

            As far as I know, but I might be wrong. IPFS is great for static content. But wikis are dynamic but slow.

            Every change must be stored as duplicate file. For low bandwidth text based content it could probably work.

            The 6h news cycle of web 2.0 would be incompatible with IPFS but web 3.0 and fediverse could be made more static, (more users see the same article so it could work)