Sure. But additional layers of complexity that don't add anything useful just makes it harder for people to participate and centralizes them into services that handle the complexity for them.

So I finally took the plunge into learning what IPFS is about. And I must say.

Content-addressing is FAR easier to understand than location addressing. In fact, it's the way most people think of a url. I'm sharing "this picture." When you post to Facebook, you're "writing to your friends and family," not "uploading my stuff to a faceless corporation for them to monetize in whatever way they see fit." I mean, folks have a better understanding that that's what they're doing NOW, but a honestly IPFS seems closer to the way people intuitively use and think about the web.

Personally, I find IPFS incredibly useful (when it works). Especially since it makes your content faster and more available than running your own web server at home.

Maybe I'm missing something but how is your stuff replicated when you use IPFS? I thought you just shared a link to the content which resides on your own machine.

Otherwise, how are you paying for the hosting?

Whenever someone visits your content, they download and redistribute it, like a torrent. You can also pay for services like eternum.io to (additionally) distribute your content.

Of course, that makes sense. Thanks.