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```{index} IPFS
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# IPFS
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If IPFS is {index}`BitTorrent` + {index}`git`, and {key}`ActivityPub` is {key}`Distributed Messaging` + {key}`Linked Data`, then p2p-ld is IPFS + ActivityPub. We build on IPFS and are heavily inspired by its design and shortcomings revealed by practical use.
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## Problems
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- Slow access!
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- No identity misses the social nature of infrastructure. Where bittorrent had trackers, there is no similar concept in IPFS to organize archives.
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- Hence the need for filecoin, an exogenous incentive to store, but then it becomes transactional which generates its own problems.
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- Trust! eg. its use in phishing attacks is because there is no way to know who the hell a given CID is owned by. It needs to be possible to do social curation, or at leats know when something is riskier or not.
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- Lack of metadata means having to build a lot of shit post-hoc, like IPLD and multihashes and codecs and whatnot.
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## IPLD
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## Overlap
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- {index}`Merkle DAG`s
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## Differences
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- Not permanent storage! Identities retain custody and control over objects in the network.
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