IPFS requires "pinning" content for it to exist, meaning you host it, whoever pins content becomes liable for its distribution, if no one pins it, it disappears. That's why you can't freely host things like child porn on IPFS.
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#12related: https://torrent-paradise.ml/ Also based on IPFS with this HTTP gateway. I find a lot of torrents in there.
any similar link you know for DHT searches?
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#13I'm curious about why didn't they compress the SQLite file using gzip. Even in level 1, for superfast compression/decompression halved the file size.
I knew I could do it, I just wanted to make a demo of the whole thing to see if it would have worked in practice. But yes there's space for a lot of improvements like compression and lazy load with sqlite (cited in a comment)
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#14Enhance it with the fact you can lazy load sqlite query using HTTP Range as demonstrated in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
Well, you could reimplement "absurd sql" over ipfs. Possible, but far from trivial.
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#15IPFS requires "pinning" content for it to exist, meaning you host it, whoever pins content becomes liable for its distribution, if no one pins it, it disappears. That's why you can't freely host things like child porn on IPFS.
This is true even for a torrent btw. And (un?)fortunately you can distribute anything on IPFS as long as it's encrypted.
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#16How do immutable systems like IPFS manage the problem of updates to a blog?
They have another system called IPNS but unless it’s improved since I checked, it wasn’t very practical.
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#17IPFS requires "pinning" content for it to exist, meaning you host it, whoever pins content becomes liable for its distribution, if no one pins it, it disappears. That's why you can't freely host things like child porn on IPFS.
This is true even for a torrent btw. And (un?)fortunately you can distribute anything on IPFS as long as it's encrypted.
No one is going to pin encrypted data they do not understand. And IPFS doesn’t get users to seed random files, you only seed stuff you downloaded. So really it’s not much different to hosting it on a personal http server except any downloaders can also host.
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#18I love the internet.
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#19How do immutable systems like IPFS manage the problem of updates to a blog?
They have another system called IPNS but unless it’s improved since I checked, it wasn’t very practical.
What's wrong with IPNS? I'm using it for my decentralized website (via fleek), and it seems to work well.
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#20One unmentioned con: no updates, no new torrents can be added (or, updates require re-deployment of full new .sqlite db, together with a new website). I think there's a space for decentralized database format. Something that would have immutable rows (not the whole db), ranges and search, indexes, etc. Maybe there's something like this already?