From 6c79bb0041abbaa08a8b8d3bff7c86d27b50a761 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JP Hastings-Spital Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:26:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Use more permanent ipfs link --- content/posts/link-shortener/index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/posts/link-shortener/index.md b/content/posts/link-shortener/index.md index 545cffa5..5318f78e 100644 --- a/content/posts/link-shortener/index.md +++ b/content/posts/link-shortener/index.md @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ A web address today looks like `www.byjp.me/posts`. This contains the name of th In the world of IPFS data is accessed, instead, by a Content ID ("CID") — a name that is derrived from, and unique to, the data it points to, rather than where it's located. The way this works is fairly technical, but the same data _always_ produces the same CID, and the CID unquely refers to that data[^1]. -My site (as I write this) has the CID of `/ipfs/QmWSnMtmfh78EdKjztRMRLFufk4BMKN3nSvqZBR5g8aDWF`. You can see exactly it at [ipfs.io](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWSnMtmfh78EdKjztRMRLFufk4BMKN3nSvqZBR5g8aDWF), at [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmWSnMtmfh78EdKjztRMRLFufk4BMKN3nSvqZBR5g8aDWF), [dweb.link](https://dweb.link/ipfs/QmWSnMtmfh78EdKjztRMRLFufk4BMKN3nSvqZBR5g8aDWF) or any other IPFS server. +Another of my sites (a 3D model of my brain) has the CID `QmPgEidvA67eUxtSgLQy2N5cWXh8WQ8r7iYQn1ecjrL8Mz`. You can see it at [ipfs.io](https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPgEidvA67eUxtSgLQy2N5cWXh8WQ8r7iYQn1ecjrL8Mz), at [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmPgEidvA67eUxtSgLQy2N5cWXh8WQ8r7iYQn1ecjrL8Mz), [dweb.link](https://dweb.link/ipfs/QmPgEidvA67eUxtSgLQy2N5cWXh8WQ8r7iYQn1ecjrL8Mz) or any other IPFS server, as I have it stored on an IPFS server connected to the internet. This means that if Jo Bloggs makes a copy of my site ("pins" that CID), and then my site goes down forever, everyone can still view my site, _exactly_ as it was meant to be, by getting it from Jo Bloggs instead of me. I'm glossing over some details here but, broadly, so long as someone cares about the data in question: link rot defeated.