IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
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Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
#2I 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?
Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
#3I 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?
Personally didn't like that there was no option for setting any transfer limits, using it with limited mobile plan is like "internet suiccide"
Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
#4I 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?
none of the examples on the homepage work, so I'm assuming it's still wonky
Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
#5The Web has always been distributed.
Ever hear of Web proxy cache? Squid existed in the 90s.
Ever wonder how Linux distros have had so HTTP(S) mirrors before IPFS? Copy the content with wget and now it's distributed.
There's like 50 people who use IPFS.
Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
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#7I 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?
What do you mean unauthorized accesses?
IPFS is heavily used for NFTs.
Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
#8I 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?
What do you mean unauthorized accesses? IPFS is heavily used for NFTs.
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.
Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
#9I 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?
Re: IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
#10I 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?
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.