IPFS Powers the Distributed Web (opens in new tab)

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65 pointsheyuji784y ago17 comments

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I had tried the project two years ago, but after a few days I had too many unauthorized accesses, because the project was still in the early stages. Has anyone had some experience in the meantime or is this still an "insider" project?

danielEM4y ago

Personally didn't like that there was no option for setting any transfer limits, using it with limited mobile plan is like "internet suiccide"

yawnxyz4y ago

none of the examples on the homepage work, so I'm assuming it's still wonky

ilaksh4y ago

What do you mean unauthorized accesses?

IPFS is heavily used for NFTs.

jazzyjackson4y ago

Which, unfortunately, is full of folks who don’t understand that the image disappears when no ones hosting it. People call the IPFS the “perma-web” and expect their content to be hosted in perpetuity for free.

Imaging paying for artwork and not downloading a copy because you think it’s archived. Poor art buyers.

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jazzyjackson4y ago

I never understood the difference between ipfs hash addresses and a magnet link hash address.

I guess the magnet link still has to ask a tracking server that knows some peer addresses already right? Whereas an ipfs node can dive into the DHT and start searching for a peer?

brendyn4y ago

Basically because there isn't much of a difference. IPFS is basically bittorrent that breaks compatibility to add some fancy new features in exchange for more resources usage, like RAM. bittorrent v2 also does this but more modestly as it intends for torrent clients to upgrade to support it.

viraptor4y ago

There is a big difference in that you can reference a single file/directory from a tree using the IPFS hash, which I don't believe it's possible in BitTorrent (v1). (it's not the same as torrent's partial download) As a side effect this does deduplication so multiple IPFS trees can share the same file improving availability (and provide cheap tree updates)

vertere4y ago

Bittorrent also has a DHT, which you can use instead of (or as well as) tracking servers.

Perhaps the key difference is that torrents (targets for magnet links) can't link to other torrents, at least not in a way the protocol is aware of. Each torrent swarm is something of an island. IPFS is more like one big graph ("web") of documents/files.

brendyn4y ago

bittorrent v2 is a bit different and more similar to IPFS: https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

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annadane4y ago

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danielEM4y ago

Personally didn't like that there was no option for setting any transfer limits, using it with limited mobile plan is like "internet suiccide"

yawnxyz4y ago

none of the examples on the homepage work, so I'm assuming it's still wonky

ilaksh4y ago

What do you mean unauthorized accesses?

IPFS is heavily used for NFTs.

jazzyjackson4y ago

Imaging paying for artwork and not downloading a copy because you think it’s archived. Poor art buyers.

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jazzyjackson4y ago

I never understood the difference between ipfs hash addresses and a magnet link hash address.

I guess the magnet link still has to ask a tracking server that knows some peer addresses already right? Whereas an ipfs node can dive into the DHT and start searching for a peer?

brendyn4y ago

viraptor4y ago

vertere4y ago

Bittorrent also has a DHT, which you can use instead of (or as well as) tracking servers.

brendyn4y ago

bittorrent v2 is a bit different and more similar to IPFS: https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

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annadane4y ago

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