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Here's a lil something that @livid and @jango.eth have been cooking for the last year or two called CropTop. I think of croptop publishing network as a personal instagram with IPFS & crypto built in. Adding the Farcaster frame technology, open graph images, & pingem.xyz for notifications....

https://app.revnet.eth.sucks/base:2 <-- support the project, price change in 66 days!

https://croptop.eth.sucks/  <-- more info, give it a try (macos only at the moment, download code on github)

Step by step the revnets will form; slow slow slow fast; we can all win together

@chainsafe plsplspls implement IPFS CAR imports or at least IPFS CAR pinning thx 🙏 🙏 🙏

BuT aLL thIs DaTA sHoUld bE peRmAnEnt https://gerrymcgovern.com/data-centers-contain-90-crap-data/

The beauty of IPFS is in data persistence yet not permanence. 

Persist what is valued
Purge what isn’t 
Don’t create more data waste

Built this in less than an hour

An IPFS CAR upload service in under 200 LOC that imports .car files straight to your IPFS node instance.

A perfect option for self hosting an IPFS-based upload service

https://github.com/talentlessguy/garaj

Presenting Blumen v0.14 - slef custodial decentralized website deployment tool.

- 4 new IPFS providers support, including @pinatacloud, 4everland, @quicknode and @lighthouse-web3
- Self hosted spec-compliant pinning service support.
- New command - `blumen pin`. Pin existing websites by a CID
- Various bug fixes
- Updated docs on the @ensdomains + @safe deployment pipeline

Doc website: https://blumen.stauro.dev
Install via `pnpm i -g blumen`

Did you know that you can use `?format=car` on any ENS gateway (e.g. eth.link, eth.ac, eth.sucks)? 

I was very happy when I learned this. Used this feature to build a pseudo-database for Dapp Rank. Read more in my Reddit post:

Did you know that you can use `?format=car` on any ENS gateway (e.g. eth.link, eth.ac, eth.sucks)? 

I was very happy when I learned this. Used this feature to build a pseudo-database for Dapp Rank. Read more in my Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipfs/comments/1jqdv85/directories_and_carfiles_as_pseudodatabases/

Did you know: 

- You can install and run IPFS with just `brew install ipfs && ipfs daemon`
- Visit webui.ipfs.io to view your local IPFS node stats
- Explore the Apollo archives totally p2p 

You can just use IPFS

You have to get the data _from_ the device _to_ the cloud in a way that maintains verifiable integrity.

Every form of centralized and decentralized storage other than IPFS isn't capable of this concept.

An Obsidian plugin got out of hand last night and now I have a RasPi5 + NVME drive ordered for an IPFS node 

Slippery slope is slippery

This is what always struck me as odd with companies that build their own IPFS infra. You’re not saving money by building it in the cloud compared to using a service like Pinata. If you built it in your own data center, sure you might save money.

This is what always struck me as odd with companies that build their own IPFS infra. You’re not saving money by building it in the cloud compared to using a service like Pinata. If you built it in your own data center, sure you might save money. https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-five-grand-a-day-to-miss-our-s3-exit-b8293563

Trust the data itself, not who is serving it

pinata

Gave Claude the docs for the multiformats-js library and almost got a one-shot web app to help one of our users at /pinata. Never underestimate what AI can do with IPFS 💪

Gave Claude the docs for the multiformats-js library and almost got a one-shot web app to help one of our users at /pinata. Never underestimate what AI can do with IPFS 💪 

https://cid-converter.orbiter.website/

Accessing my personal site through Peersky Browser, hosted on IPFS, through Orbiter. 

I love IPFS

Accessing my personal site through Peersky Browser, hosted on IPFS, through Orbiter. 

I love IPFS

https://peersky.p2plabs.xyz/

Something I realized building lemon3. Over the last couple of years I've searched again and again how to attach metadata to a file uploaded to IPFS. For example a mime-type, a client could use to decide if it wants to download the whole file or not.

I have not found a satisfactory answer. But now I think that the answer is IPLD: A header (with all the metadata you want) linking to the actual content. You can share the header CID, you can recursively pin the header CID. And a client can fetch it, before accessing the main content.

lemon3 is an open source program that uses IPFS and Farcaster to allow decentralized file hosting and sharing.

It's a mini Farcaster client and an IPFS node, and allows uploading and downloading files. Lots of rough edges, this is the mvp, but I'm very excited.

https://blog.vrypan.net/2025/03/23/lemon3-farcaster-ipfs-decentralized-file-sharing/

https://warpcast.com/vrypan.eth/0x0297a0ba