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Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Re: Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Post by Mizza »

notwhiteknight wrote: post #2

Interesting. Can someone explain how IPFS works? Is it like Tor? I don't have any interest in running some sort of distributed content farm that might place CP on my computer. Even if the chance of that happening is 0.00001%.

IPFS is not an anonymity network.

Re: Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Post by x0137294744532 »

notwhiteknight wrote: post #2

Interesting. Can someone explain how IPFS works? Is it like Tor? I don't have any interest in running some sort of distributed content farm that might place CP on my computer. Even if the chance of that happening is 0.00001%.

IPFS isn't an anonymous network and you don't share files that you didn't download. It works more like a distributed CDN for static files.

Re: Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Post by marknadal »

The browser demo does seem to be working, however it seems very slow? Beautiful interface though! One of the best I've seen yet.

What is going on underneath? Are you guys using WebSocket or WebRTC? The reason I ask is because I wrote an interactive coding tutorial for building a distributed chat app ( http://gun.js.org/converse.html ), and it uses WebSockets to communicate with a federated relay peer server. I'm hoping to add WebRTC support but I'm curious what you guys are doing. Like, IPFS doesn't have pub/sub support right? So did you add this?

Re: Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Post by cmrx64 »

notwhiteknight wrote: post #2

Interesting. Can someone explain how IPFS works? Is it like Tor? I don't have any interest in running some sort of distributed content farm that might place CP on my computer. Even if the chance of that happening is 0.00001%.

Currently, you don't serve files etc unless you manually pin them yourself.

Re: Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Post by jmickey »

notwhiteknight wrote: post #2

Interesting. Can someone explain how IPFS works? Is it like Tor? I don't have any interest in running some sort of distributed content farm that might place CP on my computer. Even if the chance of that happening is 0.00001%.

There's a good overview of IPFS here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skMTdSEaCtA

Re: Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Post by kefka »

cmrx64 wrote: post #6
notwhiteknight wrote: post #2

Interesting. Can someone explain how IPFS works? Is it like Tor? I don't have any interest in running some sort of distributed content farm that might place CP on my computer. Even if the chance of that happening is 0.00001%.

Currently, you don't serve files etc unless you manually pin them yourself.

Not true.

You share:

1. Files you Pinned (think of as torrent seeding)

2. Files you have in your IPFS cache

     a. Cache files are added to when you request IPFS content
     b. The garbage collection triggers and removes non-pinned content at regular intervals
3. The default files that are added to a new IPFS repo (unless you removed them or init'ed using the appropriate option to not include them)

To answer the GP's question: As long as you don't pin child porn, and you don't look for child porn, there's 0% chance in IPFS-land.

Re: Orbit – Distributed, serverless, peer-to-peer chat application on IPFS

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Post by kefka »

Mizza wrote: post #3
notwhiteknight wrote: post #2

Interesting. Can someone explain how IPFS works? Is it like Tor? I don't have any interest in running some sort of distributed content farm that might place CP on my computer. Even if the chance of that happening is 0.00001%.

IPFS is not an anonymity network.

Indeed not.

In fact, IPFS via the DHT, tells the network of your whole network topology, including internal address you may have, and VPN endpoints too.

There's still talks in how to handle Tor connections. Because right now, if you were to use a Tor connection with IPFS, it will tell the whole network your public, private, and .onion addresses all.

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