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Comment by stackghost

8 hours ago

Content-addressable storage as a whole is a non-starter with non-technical users.

I don't understand. Billions of non-technical users are loading URLs like `https://cdn.foo/?guid=deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef` all the time. Why would they care if those URLs became `ipfs://deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef` instead?

  • The number of normies visiting urls directly from a CDN is a rounding error.

    Non technical users like pronounceable domain names. It's why we aren't just using IP addresses.

    CAS is intimidating to non-technical types.

    • Pronounceable names can point to a content address, the same way they can point to an IP address. For example, https://dnslink.dev points a DNS name to a content address; git refs point to git objects; etc.