ipfs is content addressable storage. the checksum IS the name.
pinset orchestrators also let you take a list of files and throw them at servers, like "make sure this hash code exists on 3 of these servers" like the fancy corporate RAIDs do.
i think i once opined a version of this that worked over RSS. one of the modules was jokingly named pachinko and would run the CRUSH algorithm from ceph through an interpreter, to place files in to silos, and then the silos become RSS feeds of the pinset.
so people would just show up and pick a random out of ten feeds and subscribe to it. which is how you get something like anna's archive where people with only a gigabyte or two to spare can still ensure books are not lost.
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npub1rs…rna04
2026-10-25 20:56:41 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…x585
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2026-10-25 20:56:41 UTCEvent JSON
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