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/ipfsg/ - IPFS general (maybe) 2017-08-27 03:51:36 Post No. 62114879
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/ipfsg/ - IPFS general (maybe) 2017-08-27 03:51:36 Post No. 62114879
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IPFS thread. Please pay attention to me senpai~ edition.
>What is IPFS?
It's basically BitTorrent on steroids.
>why would one use it
* Same file is accessed with the same hash across whole IPFS and everyone you can reach who has it seeds it. You aren't stuck in one Torrent swarm. Let's say you download a folder, and then it turns out there are some issues with it. If you download a better one you don't have to dl same files again. Individual files you already dl'd are cached. You don't have to move anything, it'll just work. (Don't shove your shit in RARs faggot.)
* You can have an both immutable and mutable addresses, kinda like a Torrent that you can update on the fly.
* As a result you can host static websites (like in Freenet).
* Smaller files that traditionally "aren't worth a torrent" can be viably hosted with IPFS.
* Because it's like a 1 huge torrent, peers are found fast for new downloads. You don't need to wait that much to start a download.
* You can watch your animu while it automatically downloads and seeds. Just point your player to the local link. It's super-fast!
>how to upload a single file
$ ipfs add ./$file
Access it at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ipfs/$outputted-hash
>how to upload a dir
$ ipfs add -r ./$dir
Access it at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ipfs/$last-outputted-hash
>how to make the thing mutable
$ ipfs name publish ./$file-or-dir-hash
Access it at http://127.0.0.1:8080/ipns/$output-hash-aka-peerid (it's ipNs not ipFs)
To update, publish another hash and it will be available at the same IPNS address.
>gateways (how to access IPFS if you don't have it installed)
https://gateway.ipfs.io/, https://gateway.glop.me/, http://ipfs.pics (just pics?)
Daily reminder to pin files that you care about.
IPFS now supports CRDTs and pubsub channels, making fully dynamic content on IPFS totally possible! Try out orbit.chat (#ipfschan channel) or check out the code at https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit for an example!
IPFSCHAN W H E N?
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Why the fuck is the character limit so low now? It wasn't that low last time these threads were being made.
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there already is an ipfschan
check the link on the ayte chan
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it'd be nice if this at least got some traction in file sharing (where bittorrent is currently being used)
it's perfectly suitable for it;
- chunks large files for parallel downloading
- deduplication, no more separate swarms for the exact same file because they're on different torrents
- free batches/bundles due to deduplication
also makes perfect sense for software/game update systems, for those reasons as well as local sharing, multiple machines on a lan updating the same thing? you can save time and bandwidth as it will only get the data once over the WAN, sharing amongs local machines... locally
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Working on integrating it are: ark.io
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>>62115925
There was a very old one that used direct p2p connection and has never made it past the tech demo stage as far as I know, CRDTs and pubsub channels are pretty new after all. But was there a more complete one in the works? Will check out the state of smugboard for sure.
>>62115941
Definitely. With all the censorship double-down lately I would have thought it would be a good direction to move into. But I think the support for dynamic content makes it suitable for even more useful things, such as for distributed, uncensorable discussion or distributed, uncensorable video hosting. This is even more powerful than just putting the data in ipfs but relying on the centralized web to deal with discoverability and interfacing with people.
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>>62116072
Filecoin also wants to reward people for either helping move the data to and from, or storing the data in, ipfs.
Some people are working with ethereum smart contracts in directs related to that, too.
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>>62115925
Looks like it's actually not ipfs-based, it's just hosted on ipfs (meaning that all logic targets a centralized server and connects directly).
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