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As far as I know, IPFS is not really decentralized. Some people say it is if others pin your files, but there are no guarantees that anyone will do that. I’ve w
by dangero 8y ago
As far as I know, IPFS is not really decentralized. Some people say it is if others pin your files, but there are no guarantees that anyone will do that. I’ve worked with startups who asked me to use IPFS and this is what it looks like: setting up an ipfs server to store files on a cloud provider, adding extras for redundancy plus a file backup system. At present it’s sufficiently more complex than rolling out S3 + glacier backups with no tangible benefit besides “decentralized” cred
It’s possible this will change via Filecoin or others, but at present the term “decentralized” is misused here.
- ndnxhs 8y agoIts the same as torrents. I'd call this decentralised.
- sneak 8y agoThe benefit is that hot files get served from the swarm instead of just your nodes, just like bittorrent. It also prefers closer nodes, so data doesn’t have to travel as far. Also, like bittorrent, a single multihash or gateway URL is enough to strongly validate the file contents, unlike S3 URLs. I keep meaning to write a sniffer that watches the p2p net for file objects, runs magic on their filetype, and indexes the indexable ones. That would be moderately useful.
- koalalorenzo 8y agoI agree but I also disagree. I think there is always a line of confusion between distributed and decentralised. The Protocol is decentralised, then the users/services can decide how to replicate the files. If everybody will have the same files, it will be 100% distributed. We can argue that Bitcoin with SPV clients is just decentralised and not distributed as well.
- dewlinedew 8y agoI don't agree to that