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Then clients could display a thing on the side saying something like: "broken link on the picture? try these other sources"

Of course this would be very unsafe, but better than nothing. Maybe just show trusted sources first.
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Roger that 2y ago

It will not be unsafe if each image/external reference has a hash, the the client can check If the hash matches before accepting the content

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Roger that 2y ago

Hash should be flexible, so as to allow ipfs standards, torrent, dht, etc

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StephanGuy 2y ago

no this is what caused ipfs to suck having too many options, just use a single hash function have a version so you can change it later, bittorrent only went to version 2 recently

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StephanGuy 2y ago

with blake3 you can verify any chunk size from 1KB denominations