Had this thought the other day and tbh it’s horrifying to think about the implications of one, or God forbid all, of them going down.
Stackoverflow too but that only applies to nerds haha

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    23 days ago

    Hashed by whom? Who has the source of truth for the hashes? How would you prevent it from being poisoned? … or are you saying a non-distributed (centralized) hash store?

    If centralized: you have a similar problem to IA today. If not centralized: How would you prevent poisoning? If enough distributed nodes say different things, the truth can be lost.

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      23 days ago

      This is a topic that is pretty well tested. Basically the data is validated when received.

      For instance in IPFS data is tracked by its hash. You request something by a CID which is just a hash.

      There are other distributed networks and they all have there own ways of protecting against attacks. Usually an attack requires a huge amount of resources.

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        23 days ago

        Even in ipfs, I don’t understand discoverability. Sort of sounds like it still needs a centralized list of metadata to content I’d, etc.