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Bittorrent protocol is decentralized wetransfer right?
Not really, with bittorent sender and receiving peers need to be online at the same time.
This is the problem I see with decentralized projects. The user experience here, is essentially the same as WeTransfer. The only difference is the underlying technologies. Now, one would have to either blindly trust that the infrastructure is truly decentralized, or have the time and necessary skills to audit the code. And then they'd have to trust that web server is actually hooking up to the code that was just audi…
I believe we should build distributed projects, seems equally to products already people love, but using great tech as ipfs, to have permanent and unlimited files.
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It would not be inaccurate to consider IPFS as an evolution of the Bittorrent protocol.
Very different protocols!
"In IPFS, data distribution happens by exchanging blocks with peers using a BitTorrent inspired protocol"
[1] https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/tree/master/papers/ipfs-cap2pfs
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Recent reports of google docs arbitrarily removing people's access to their documents seem like pretty good marketing for decentralized solutions.
That was a bug. Are you saying decentralized solutions won't ever have bugs which temporarily prevent people from accessing certain files until the bug gets fixed?
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Recent reports of google docs arbitrarily removing people's access to their documents seem like pretty good marketing for decentralized solutions.
That was a bug. Are you saying decentralized solutions won't ever have bugs which temporarily prevent people from accessing certain files until the bug gets fixed?
I'm trying to figure out how this would be decentralised. As far as I understand, merely hosting something on IPFS doesn't make it decentralised if there is only one node. - Where is my file hosted when I receive it? - Has your server pinned and seeding that file? - Is there a distributed set of nodes that also host it?
> As far as I understand, merely hosting something on IPFS doesn't make it decentralised if there is only one node. Doesn't that apply to torrents, too? If 2 or more people don't own (and share) the exact same content, then of course it's not decentralized.
This is the problem I see with decentralized projects. The user experience here, is essentially the same as WeTransfer. The only difference is the underlying technologies. Now, one would have to either blindly trust that the infrastructure is truly decentralized, or have the time and necessary skills to audit the code. And then they'd have to trust that web server is actually hooking up to the code that was just audi…
a more interesting angle, imo, is to create an alternative to the GOOG/APPL/MSFT mobile/desktop platforms using free software and dex tech. a lot of the stuff will be the same, people want music, photos, video, social, but I also hope that the p2p architecture will inspire a lot of novel ideas that will only be available inside of our freedom garden.
#heropunch:matrix.org
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Yes it does. But I don't believe this app is using any actual seeding mechanisms of IPFS from a user perspective. Which is why i'm asking about where the nodes would be to make this distributed and decentralised. My guess is that the server of this project uploads and "pins" this file in IPFS, in which case it would be no different than a centralised solution. If the server goes down, your file is unaccessible. Also,…
> But I don't believe this app is using any actual seeding mechanisms of IPFS from a user perspective I'm not sure what you mean here. Any user can "seed" any IPFS file they want, they don't need anything from this service. > in which case it would be no different than a centralised solution A distributed solution with N=1 isn't the same as a centralized solution. The difference is that distributed solutions can easi…
Also, is not like torrents, if disconnect your node, the file disappears!! Read IPFS docs please
I'm trying to figure out how this would be decentralised. As far as I understand, merely hosting something on IPFS doesn't make it decentralised if there is only one node. - Where is my file hosted when I receive it? - Has your server pinned and seeding that file? - Is there a distributed set of nodes that also host it?