Comment by elbci

1 month ago

I don't get it, I upload my files to your site, then I send my friends links to your site? How is this not a single point of failure?

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toomuchtodo  12 hours ago

IPFS [1] requires a gateway unfortunately (whether remote or running locally). If you can use content idents that are supported by web primitives, you get the distributed nature without IPFS scaffolding required. Content is versioned by hash, although I haven't looked to see if mutable torrents [2] [3] are used in this implementation. Searching via distributed hash tables for torrent metadata, cryptographically signed by the publisher, remains as a requirement imho.

Bittorrent, in my experience, "just works," whether you're relying on a torrent server or a magnet link to join a swarm and retrieve data. So, this is an interesting experiment in the IPFS, torrent, filecoin distributed content space.

[1] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

  • amelius  8 hours ago

    You don't hear much these days about IPFS, but I can remember one big problem with it was illegal content and how to deal with it.

dtj1123  1 month ago

This isn't my site, nor do I have any opinions on the implementation here. I do however find the idea of serving web pages via torrent interesting.

  • elbci  1 month ago

    p2p storage as in torrent or IPFS or whatever is the part that we kinda' solved already. Serving/searching/addressing without the (centralized) DNS is still missing for a (urgently needed) p2p censorship resistant internet. Unfortunately this guy just uses some buzzwords to offer nothing new - why would I share links to that site instead of sharing torrent magnet links?

    • recursivegirth  11 hours ago

      Thinking about this a little bit... could we use a blockchain ledger as an authoritative source for DNS records?

      User's can publish their DNS + pub key to the append-only blockchain, signed with their private key.

      Use a torrent file to connect to an initial tracker to download the blockchain.

      Once the blockchain is downloaded, every computer would have a full copy of the DNS database and could use that for discoverability.

      I have no experience with blockchains or building trackers, so maybe this is a dumb idea.

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    • sroerick  12 hours ago

      This is a great point.

      One issue I've had with IPFS is that there's nothing baked into the protocol to maintain peer health, which really limits the ability to keep the swarm connected and healthy.

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