Content addressing is important. It should not matter where content "lives". It should be able to live anywhere.
A server should be able to go down, and content should survive.
Go content addressing!
Content addressing is important. It should not matter where content "lives". It should be able to live anywhere.
A server should be able to go down, and content should survive.
Go content addressing!
Actually with this and several other things I am going to bring up, I actually made sure there was space to do things right: there was a push to make ActivityPub "https-only"
I pushed back on that, I didn't want that requirement, and it was exactly for this reason: enabling content addressing
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