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Just exactly how does IPFS solve content distribution? You still have to serve the content from a server, since you cannot depend on the kindness of strangers
by clueless404 10y ago
Just exactly how does IPFS solve content distribution?
You still have to serve the content from a server, since you cannot depend on the kindness of strangers to persist your content.
- lukasb 10y agoThe idea is that some fraction of users will be configured to reshare content, which helps distribution for popular content scale. This seems to work in practice for bittorrent.
- clueless404 10y agoYes, but only for suitably popular content, as all the dead torrents will testify. This doesn't make IPFS very appealing to Joe Blow, content maker unextraordinaire.
- anc84 10y agoJoe Blow would just need to find some fans who think that keeping his content available for others is worth their while. I believe this could work amazingly well for netlabels and indie bands.
- clueless404 10y agoRegardless of whether I think this is a bit of a far fetched use case or not, this really does nothing for Joe Blow and his content distribution needs. But let's roll with it anyway. How does IPFS solve this problem, and more specifically how does IPFS solve this problem any better than just publishing a torrent of Joe Blows collected ramblings?
- anc84 10y agoSorry, I don't really care about your theoretical questions. IPFS is nice and fun technology. If you don't want to participate, you don't have to.
- clueless404 10y ago> theoretical I don't think that word means what you think it means. Asking what problem a technology solves is a very practical question. Countering with "IPFS is a nice and fun technology", is the very opposite, i.e. alluding to that there might be some theoretical benefits to it, but that your mainly into it for gits and shiggles.
- lukasb 10y agoIPFS isn't meant to provide hosting. It's meant to help you scale distribution. If Joe Blow's content isn't that popular, he doesn't need IPFS anyway.
- clueless404 10y agoOk, so IPFS isn't for hosting and it's not for unpopular content. What is it for then? For scaling distribution, you say. What problem does it solve? How, what and why? Is it better than BitTorrent for that use case?
- lukasb 10y agoit's better than bittorrent because you don't need a centralized tracker.
- Ericson2314 10y agoAlso content can be incrementally updated without duplication.
- clueless404 10y agoOk, when or why would you use IPFS instead of something else?
- lukasb 10y agolol, you can troll better than that, c'mon :)
- clueless404 10y agoAre you just unable to answer the question or are you just so new to the interwebz that you think that was a troll?