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ipfs-pinning-gc.md

Pinning <> garbage collection

Notes and initial exploration around pinning, garbage collection, and how that interacts with multiple processes or endpoints interacting with the same pinset.

Story time!

In the future, content-addressed, peer-to-peer networks are clearly the way to build apps because it allows people to stay in control of their own data: apps must come to them to access their files and folders, rather than the end user constantly connecting to a central database or backbone where their information is stored "in the cloud".

How might two people share pictures via a Facebook-like interface, and also manage all their data in a separate WebUI-like interface?

Explorations

Act 1, Scene 1. Or, awwww, I want to save that nice picture mom took of a rainbow.

Act 1, Scene 1. Or, awwww, I want to save that nice picture mom took of a rainbow.

Act 1, Scene 2. Or, I want to share a pic of my dog and cat because of course.

Act 1, Scene 2. Or, I want to share a pic of my dog and cat because of course.

Act 1, Scene 3. Or, ugh, I'm running out of space and I don't want mom's rainbow pic anymore.

Act 1, Scene 3. Or, ugh, I'm running out of space and I don't want mom's rainbow pic anymore.

Act 2, Scene 1. Or, poop, I need to do some housecleaning.

Act 2, Scene 1. Or, poop, I need to do some housecleaning.

Souce Mural here: https://app.mural.co/t/protocollabs6957/m/protocollabs6957/1570145772661/4840a32153cd743d2f8352e81a8a5e2745d41ec0

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