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I didn't know about it. I chose webtorrent because I potentially also wanted to have content created from the app to be long term on the torrent network if peop

by kinlan 10y ago

I didn't know about it. I chose webtorrent because I potentially also wanted to have content created from the app to be long term on the torrent network if people are seeding the content.

niftich 10y ago
There was a discussion about the world's oldest torrent, where others and I mused about solutions to the problem of ephemeral seeds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962305 I suggested that one could maybe bridge Bittorrent and IPFS, then someone suggested that IPFS would be ideal for being the 'canonical' source of the file while the other protocols (HTTP, BT, WT) are merely ways to access the file.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago
  > then someone suggested that IPFS would be ideal for being the 'canonical' source of the file while the other protocols (HTTP, BT, WT) are merely ways to access the file. Hey! That was me! I still believe its a great idea ;)
- greglindahl 10y ago
  The Internet Archive seeds all of our items' torrents since 2012. IPFS is a more straightforward way for us to be sure we've got independent seeds of all of our content. Got 25 petabytes of disk?
  - niftich 10y ago
    Uhhh, 20 GB free... I'm just a third-party, but if you were to get in touch with the IPFS team to host a limited amount of IA content as a proof-of-concept, I'm sure it would be a great publicity for both of your organizations.
    - greglindahl 10y ago
      We're in touch with them, yes, and we have a proof-of-concept node.
  - toomuchtodo 10y ago
    I've always wanted to write a distributed ArchiveTeam torrent server that, instead of distributing crawlers for ingestion, equally distributed IA torrents to distributed end-user storage (in a VM most likely). If seeding for a torrent dropped below a threshold, that torrent would be advertised to other client nodes to download and then serve themselves. Client VMs could come and go, and the announcer would always ensure remote storage was handled in an orderly fashion. Perhaps this year is the year!

by kinlan 10y ago

I didn't know about it. I chose webtorrent because I potentially also wanted to have content created from the app to be long term on the torrent network if people are seeding the content.

niftich 10y ago

There was a discussion about the world's oldest torrent, where others and I mused about solutions to the problem of ephemeral seeds: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962305 I suggested that one could maybe bridge Bittorrent and IPFS, then someone suggested that IPFS would be ideal for being the 'canonical' source of the file while the other protocols (HTTP, BT, WT) are merely ways to access the file.

toomuchtodo 10y ago
> then someone suggested that IPFS would be ideal for being the 'canonical' source of the file while the other protocols (HTTP, BT, WT) are merely ways to access the file. Hey! That was me! I still believe its a great idea ;)
greglindahl 10y ago
The Internet Archive seeds all of our items' torrents since 2012. IPFS is a more straightforward way for us to be sure we've got independent seeds of all of our content. Got 25 petabytes of disk?
- niftich 10y ago
  Uhhh, 20 GB free... I'm just a third-party, but if you were to get in touch with the IPFS team to host a limited amount of IA content as a proof-of-concept, I'm sure it would be a great publicity for both of your organizations.
  - greglindahl 10y ago
    We're in touch with them, yes, and we have a proof-of-concept node.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago
  I've always wanted to write a distributed ArchiveTeam torrent server that, instead of distributing crawlers for ingestion, equally distributed IA torrents to distributed end-user storage (in a VM most likely). If seeding for a torrent dropped below a threshold, that torrent would be advertised to other client nodes to download and then serve themselves. Client VMs could come and go, and the announcer would always ensure remote storage was handled in an orderly fashion. Perhaps this year is the year!