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Firefox has worked with IPFS since early 2019 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companion/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs

by skrowl 4y ago

Firefox has worked with IPFS since early 2019 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companion/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-companio... Brave just took the step of forcing you to always have the extension installed instead of making it optional, basically I've tried IPFS a time or two and always found it to be INCREDIBLY slow (even worse than tor) with ZERO content discoverability.

dleslie 4y ago
This still requires external software to operate, and isn't available on mobile. It's effectively dead in the water by not being available to use without additional configuration, by default. I'd argue this is worse than doing nothing. This gave Firefox the ability to say they care, and yet not deliver something meaningful.
- spicybright 4y ago
  I agree. It just leads to "Oh, IPFS? I tried that years ago, it was terrible. I don't recommend trying it." What do you think firefox could have done to improve things? And, as someone not well versed, is there any "killer demo" that uses IPFS currently?
  - TheaomBen 4y ago
    I'm working on a collaborative photogrammetry solution (think async/distributed 3d mapping from overlapping pictures) that shares data via IPFS. Flattering myself heavily, I believe this sort of public-data consuming application fits like nothing else.
    - morphle 4y ago
      You where going to contact me end of this week (morphle at ziggo dot nl) for the plant/species identification software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31537487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31537487. Your collaborative photogrammetry can be combined with the open and free species identification API and my custom OpenStreetMap data extensions and KartaView/OpenStreetCam/OpenStreetView to get more photogrammetry location integration and more free crowdsourced open data to add to photogrammetry. A demo of Seadragon/Photosynth [1] inspired me to work on this. [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosynth_can_connect_the_world_s_images/transcript?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...
    - spicybright 4y ago
      That sounds fascinating! Can you elaborate or point me to more information on it? I would love to hear your perspective on it from a real use case.
      - TheaomBen 4y ago
        With pleasure, drop me a mail and I'll get back to you next week (last three letters of my username here @ rest of my username dot artificial intelligence). I haven't put anything online yet though sorry!

by skrowl 4y ago

dleslie 4y ago

This still requires external software to operate, and isn't available on mobile. It's effectively dead in the water by not being available to use without additional configuration, by default. I'd argue this is worse than doing nothing. This gave Firefox the ability to say they care, and yet not deliver something meaningful.

spicybright 4y ago
I agree. It just leads to "Oh, IPFS? I tried that years ago, it was terrible. I don't recommend trying it." What do you think firefox could have done to improve things? And, as someone not well versed, is there any "killer demo" that uses IPFS currently?
- TheaomBen 4y ago
  I'm working on a collaborative photogrammetry solution (think async/distributed 3d mapping from overlapping pictures) that shares data via IPFS. Flattering myself heavily, I believe this sort of public-data consuming application fits like nothing else.
  - morphle 4y ago
    You where going to contact me end of this week (morphle at ziggo dot nl) for the plant/species identification software: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31537487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31537487. Your collaborative photogrammetry can be combined with the open and free species identification API and my custom OpenStreetMap data extensions and KartaView/OpenStreetCam/OpenStreetView to get more photogrammetry location integration and more free crowdsourced open data to add to photogrammetry. A demo of Seadragon/Photosynth [1] inspired me to work on this. [1] https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosynth_can_connect_the_world_s_images/transcript?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...
  - spicybright 4y ago
    That sounds fascinating! Can you elaborate or point me to more information on it? I would love to hear your perspective on it from a real use case.
    - TheaomBen 4y ago
      With pleasure, drop me a mail and I'll get back to you next week (last three letters of my username here @ rest of my username dot artificial intelligence). I haven't put anything online yet though sorry!