Once again you babble on and provide nothing useful, derailing someone elses useful thread. Just go to steemit. You'll fit right in.

SteemIt only encodes text posts and URLs into its blockchain.

and yet all you really do is preach about it without providing any helpful links, docs, or instructions, in someone elses thread that has a working solution... you do sound like a steemit developer.

@frankenmine , while this may be important, your submission is not directly related to Pizzagate, and I need to remove it per rule1. Please resubmit this on /v/pizzagatewhatever to keep the discussion alive. Thank you.

I have used ipfs.pics in the past on voat and received the complaint that the hash used to reference images misses out on the preview features of voat because it doesn't end with an image file extension like .jpg or .png. You can hack this by opening the image in its own tab and adding "#.png" to the end of any URL to retain voat's image preview features. E.g. - https://ipfs.pics/ipfs/Qmduj4VjKMMWRLwxcrHugxCTWD1cZ66iiKTeW2JGRZtY9u#.png

To provide a little more clarity ipfs provides object (in this case image) permanence but not necessarily persistence. Any file stored via ipfs generates a hash (a long series of numbers and letters) that is unique to that file. The algorithm that creates the hash would create the exact same hash were someone to upload the same file to the network again. What that means is that every file can have what is essentially a permanent, easily shared address that will never change.

The reason this solution is "permanent" but not necessarily "persistent" is that if every instance of a file were removed from the ipfs network the file would no longer be accessible even though the hash that would be used to access it hasn't changed.

Here is the deal on this. The more popular a file in the ipfs network the more it becomes persistent. It is very much like a popular torrent file. The more peers that have the file in the network the greater its availability.

So while ipfs isn't perfect it is as close to the theoretical limit as I can imagine. As long as someone somewhere on the ipfs network is sharing a file it is automagically available to everyone everywhere via a hash (address) that will never change.

Someone else already provided the link to the ipfs.pics source code... https://github.com/ipfspics/ipfspics-server

Ipfs.pics is actually just a particular implementation of the underlying ipfs technology described above. The real action is at https://ipfs.io/ which is the source of everything that I have described here.

As a final note - other comments seem to be conflating blockchain technologies with ipfs. They are two separate things but can work very well together. Blockchain is not more resilient than ipfs, as they both need to be propagated somewhere on a network to be accessible. Ipfs is perfect for object permanence whereas blockchain is perfect for transactional permanence. Working together they can (will?) completely change the way the internet works.

TL;DR - ipfs.pics is super cool. You should use it.

ipfs does not redundantly back up every file uploaded to it at multiple physical locations. See the FAQ and this answer here . I also had this misunderstanding when I first encountered it.

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The creators of ipfs.pics DID CREATE A BLOCKCHAIN SOLUTION!

http://filecoin.io/

This is what we are looking for people!

Made topic over here:

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1576361

So know the question:

What is decentrilized about it except they say they are.

We need a link or somesort of way to create a mirror-node ourselves.

The same is to say for SteemIt, they say it's blockchain based but I don't say any method on how to take part of the network.

What about this ipfs pics?

We need to be able to download the data to our own computers otherwise THOSE DECENTRILIZATION WORDS ARE WITHOUT VALUE!

Edit, here it is:

Make sure to join the nodes, instructions are over here:

https://github.com/ipfspics/ipfspics-server

More information about IPFS and why why might still be looking for a blockchain solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10436792

From my understanding, IPFS uses a system of hashes created on the Ethereum blockchain to distribute pieces of larger files on nodes using the platform. Having the address of the file and the hash associated with its encryption allows for the disparate files to be collected, decrypted, and compiled.

Steem + IPFS = censorship resistant

There would be a lot of overhead associated with storing binary data in a blockchain. I don't predict a practical implementation anytime soon.

Well that was completely useless.

Until you show how to store pics in the blockchain you should stop preaching and just upvote the guy for providing something useful.

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