Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
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Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#2Well the caching aspect of IPFS is useful for space, the transport protocols are way too chatty and latency sensitive for real usage.
Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#3Sounds like a perfect way to distribute uncensorable OS models and datasets
Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#4One of the most unusual home pages I've seen in a long time, not sure if I like it or I'm just conditioned to expect a certain style, kudos to them for being different though.
Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#5Well the caching aspect of IPFS is useful for space, the transport protocols are way too chatty and latency sensitive for real usage.
The beauty of ipfs is the transport protocols are completely modular. They do a pretty good job supporting a lot of variety a separating concerns via https://github.com/libp2p/specs
Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#6Huge achievement. A big, big stepping stone toward interplanetary communication.
But while I love the idea of IPFS, it comes with a bunch of tradeoffs that I think make it very unlikely that it'll ever become mainstream.
What I do think will happen in space, is similar to what already happens with PoPs around the world, no IPFS required. As an example: I believe that there will be a YouTube on the moon and YouTube on Mars, and YouTube servers caching most of the content on both, and it'll all work the same. Cross-planet communication will be high latency, but it won't matter.
Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#7Filecoin is probably one of the few cryptocurrencies with intrinsic value, even if the amount is debatable. IPFS has stood the test of time and seems like a good protocol; and a cryptocurrency that can be used to pay for storage is not valueless.
Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#8Huge achievement. A big, big stepping stone toward interplanetary communication. But while I love the idea of IPFS, it comes with a bunch of tradeoffs that I think make it very unlikely that it'll ever become mainstream. What I do think will happen in space, is similar to what already happens with PoPs around the world, no IPFS required. As an example: I believe that there will be a YouTube on the moon and YouTube on…
> What I do think will happen in space, though, is similar to what already happens with PoPs around the world. As an example: I believe that there will be a YouTube on the moon and YouTube on Mars, and YouTube servers caching most of the content on both, and it'll all work the same. Cross-planet communication will be high latency, but it won't matter.
Importantly, this is enabled by content addressable storage in IPFS, where the address of the data is derived deterministically with cryptographic hashing. Agree it likely won't ever become super popular, but it is a core component of distributed storage systems without central orchestration.
Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#9One of the most unusual home pages I've seen in a long time, not sure if I like it or I'm just conditioned to expect a certain style, kudos to them for being different though.
I think the typography can be improved a little, but overall I like it quite a bit. It's refreshing to come across something that isn't just the zillionth iteration of your bog standard home/landing page.
*One other thing I noticed is that the "Resources" section doesn't have the gradient border edges on it, which I don't know is intentional or not.
Re: Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
#10Filecoin is probably one of the few cryptocurrencies with intrinsic value, even if the amount is debatable. IPFS has stood the test of time and seems like a good protocol; and a cryptocurrency that can be used to pay for storage is not valueless.
Has it? I have never seen anybody using IPFS in the wild, even projects for which it should be well suited (archive.org, Linux package distribution, Git, Lemmy, Imgur, CivitAI), don't use it. Worse yet, IPFS still provides no real way to deal with private or local data, which drastically limits its use.
I love the idea about data being addressable by hash, but I don't feel IPFS has actually delivered anything meaningful in that area yet.
And with ipfs-search.com shutdown, there is not even any way left to explore what is actually on the network now.
And technical issues aside, there is also the legal problem that IPFS conflicts with copyright. Redistributing anything is illegal by default, unless somebody gives you permission, IPFS provides no means to track that permission. You can't attach a GPL or an author to a hash.