IPFS + (Arweave or Filecoin) behind it seems like the best decentralized web stack I've seen yet. I'm not sure how Orbit holds up.
Arweave has production ready releases ?
Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
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Re: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
#82Re: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't true of most blockchain p2p networks, eg, Bitcoin. Anything uploaded to these lasts as long as the entire network does. The reason this works is it costs some amount to initially print the data to the network, limiting that kind of abuse.
And because there is money involved in making it last as long as the entire network. Once the monetary reasons drop then so does the data.
It's possible for sure, but with Bitcoin and the overall crypto space steadily growing in value into the trillions over the course of over a decade, it seems unlikely.
Re: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
#84I like this, but I feel its important to point out that this is effectively unusable by the very people who would benefit from it most: non-web developers. If this were a drop-in C/C++ library, I'd use it immediately in my native apps and adopt it as a widespread platform technology. I want to be able to do this, and if it were truly a working technology, I'd put it in every single app I use. But as a Node/JS library…
orbitdb runs on browsers, via WebRTC. It's much easier to embrace something that runs on a web page than something that you have to download and run.