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To an extent, although many times you still rely on a centralized tracker and dedicated seeds. Unless you belong to a private tracker where users are forced to

To an extent, although many times you still rely on a centralized tracker and dedicated seeds. Unless you belong to a private tracker where users are forced to maintain certain ratios to continue using a service, then in most cases a torrent will end up like an IPFS site without any pins. If IPFS provided the ability to track pins from users of a site like private trackers, and provide rewards or some incentive then I think IPFS would gain much wider adoption.

t3rr0r 6y ago
you're describing an architecture similar to a project I'm working on using orbitdb/ipfslog - it's not quite ready for sharing/using but there's more information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/lrqx7m/record_a_distributed_audio_file_system/ https://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/lrqx7m/record...
- encryptluks2 6y ago
  Thanks. Napster 3.0 here we come ;)
pythonaut_16 6y ago
Most torrent clients also "pin" content a user downloads by default, with configuration options to stop seeding once certain conditions or upload ratios are met. Does IPFS support something similar? e.g. pin this content until I have a 5:1 upload to download ratio --- I 100% agree on the ability to track pins. I want to see organizations be able to easily peer/pin content from other orgs they endorse; and for end users to be able to follow and help peer for organizations they support. I want something like Youtube where I choose who appears as in the related videos on my channel and can be a peer to hosting them; and where my users can help to peer my videos (and I can help peer others). As an end user, my client (or local server/cache) would prefetch the content I follow both to be a peer and to have it ready for me to access. This would also help with locality of data; if 4 people in my household watch the same video or channel they would be able to get the content locally. If I'm an organization with a physical location, users connected to my network can fetch the content on a local link.

t3rr0r 6y ago

you're describing an architecture similar to a project I'm working on using orbitdb/ipfslog - it's not quite ready for sharing/using but there's more information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/lrqx7m/record_a_distributed_audio_file_system/ https://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder/comments/lrqx7m/record...

encryptluks2 6y ago
Thanks. Napster 3.0 here we come ;)

pythonaut_16 6y ago

Most torrent clients also "pin" content a user downloads by default, with configuration options to stop seeding once certain conditions or upload ratios are met. Does IPFS support something similar? e.g. pin this content until I have a 5:1 upload to download ratio --- I 100% agree on the ability to track pins. I want to see organizations be able to easily peer/pin content from other orgs they endorse; and for end users to be able to follow and help peer for organizations they support. I want something like Youtube where I choose who appears as in the related videos on my channel and can be a peer to hosting them; and where my users can help to peer my videos (and I can help peer others). As an end user, my client (or local server/cache) would prefetch the content I follow both to be a peer and to have it ready for me to access. This would also help with locality of data; if 4 people in my household watch the same video or channel they would be able to get the content locally. If I'm an organization with a physical location, users connected to my network can fetch the content on a local link.