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fediverse as a file system? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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".

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

Isn't this essentially what IPFS is?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that's exactly what IPFS is, it's a distributed filesystem, although it's also a Blockchain-based technology so it comes with that baggage

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think IPFS itself is tied to a blockchain. That said, the creators seem to be involved in a lot of crypto stuff (including creating Filecoin on top of IPFS), so it does have blockchain baggage attached to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nextcloud can have some sort of federation: https://nextcloud.com/federation/

I find the idea kind of neat, but not very useful

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Everything is possible, look at this video called Harder Drive for examples of this sort of thing being done.

There used to be (and probably still are) entire youtube channels of apparent static or random shapes that turned out to be massive amounts of data stored as video.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Somebody made πfs, so I don't see why ActivityPubFs wouldn't be technically possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The thing you're looking for exists and is called IPFS. Imagine fuse mounting BitTorrent. Actually, the fuse part is a minor feature, but it exists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oooh, I like the idea!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Doesn’t this sound like Usenet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

The Fediverse and classical Usenet are so similar IMO. I think Usenet is just so old that nobody outside of pirates is familiar with it.

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