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Federated Networks.md

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   - To set the rules which govern users of their instance.
   - To set the rules which govern who they federate with.
 - It encourages fractal [[governance]] (e.g: communist at family level, liberal at state level, ...)
+  - Users can choose servers based on trust, privacy policies, and community standards, which can enhance security and user control over data.
+- [The network needs a way to preserve content when a node goes down (probably using content-addressed storage)](https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/).

IPFS.md

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   - Files are automatically deduplicated.
   - [It chunks, hashes and organizes blobs in a smart way](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gx8vSqrWZ7X-3SCgITXqQdinZQeXIAA7ITqL25SsPN8/edit#slide=id.g741b4d76cd_0_13).
 - Once something is added, it can't be changed anymore.
-- IPFS supports versioning using commits.
-- Keeping files available is a challenge. If the nodes storing a file go down, it'll disappear from the network. Filecoin can help with this adding incentives to the equation.
-- IPFS makes some nice properties the default. E.g: content addressing.
+- At the heart of everything, is the concept of content identifiers (CIDs).
+  - A CID isn't just a hash of a file—it's a combination of the hash, metadata about how the content is hashed, details about encoding, and instructions for interpreting the data.
+  - They provide Portability and Openness.
+- Keeping files available is a challenge. If the nodes storing a file go down, it'll disappear from the network.
+  - Filecoin idea was to help with this adding incentives to the equation.
 
 ## [IPLD](https://ipld.io/)