All Solcial user content is stored in IPFS. What is IPFS? IPFS is an open source, peer-to-peer distributed hypermedia protocol designed to function as a ubiquitous file system for all computing devices.
Now let's try to explain it in a way that the child understands. Imagine that you go to a site and find that it loads incredibly slowly. If the drop in speed has nothing to do with the work of the provider, this may indicate problems with the resource itself, for example, the speed of access to it has dropped due to a large influx of users or a deliberate DDoS attack. Also, the site may be blocked or inaccessible due to server problems.
Now let's assume that the site is located not on one specific server, but on many nodes, and access to it is carried out in much the same way as files on a torrent tracker. Since such a site is decentralized, it will be much more difficult to “lay down” it, and it’s simply unrealistic to take it and close it, because then it would have to be physically removed from all computers.
In addition, IPFS is also, in fact, a way to back up digital files so that they do not suddenly disappear from the Internet.
What follows from all of the above: IPFS is a protocol for storing and exchanging content.
What is unique about IPFS?
IPFS is decentralized because it downloads content from thousands of peers instead of a single centralized server. Each piece of data is cryptographically hashed, resulting in a secure, unique content identifier: the CID.
If we want to avoid censorship and a single point of failure, we store our site in IPFS. What if my IPFS host goes down? There is nothing wrong with that, the website will still be loaded from other nodes around the world serving it.
Accordingly, my site will work in any case.
For example, suppose that Wikipedia is blocked in our country. In this case, I can access the decentralized version of Wikipedia by downloading it from an IPFS peer-to-peer network stored under CID.
The integrity of IPFS content can be cryptographically verified.
The contents of IPFS are not duplicated. If we tried to store two identical files on the same IPFS node, they would only be saved once, eliminating duplication because their hash would produce an identical CID.
IPFS also solves the security problems that plague the HTTP-based Internet: IPFS-based sites with content-addressed data storage and signed content protection are not subject to DDoS attacks. To mitigate the harm caused by downed sites, IPFS archives and easily stores content that is in the public domain.
It is important to note that IPFS provides unsurpassed speed for processing and storing large volumes of files, simultaneously on different computers and without duplication.
Thus, in modern conditions of censorship, such technology is actually priceless. Closing a site organized in this way is useless: at least someone will have a copy of the content, and it is unrealistic to physically ban all participants in the distribution of information. Unlike the classic torrent protocol, everything that is created on such a basis is not physically tied to the link storage, and therefore we can consider sites to be “eternal”.
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