[TarasBob]

Links in general are bad. We need to switch to using content based addresses. Something like IPFS (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content-addressable_storage)

[jeroenhd]

It would be nice, but my IPFS experiments haven't left me very hopeful of using them for any practical purposes. People don't want to wait 2 minutes for content to load and you need a lot of visitors for the network to saturate with your content.

The only advancements/alternatives I've seen in this space are cryptocurrency-based, which is even worse in my opinion.

[manuelmoreale]

I doubt that will ever happen even though it does look like a neat concept/solution.

[TarasBob]

What we are currently doing by using links is essentially saying “go to the library, 4th floor, 10th shelf, 5th book from the left” when sending a link. What we should be doing is saying “go to the library and the find the Lord of the Rings book”