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This sounds very similar to ipfs. How does it differ?

• stavros 4y ago
  IPFS can't give you the least-seeded files. It can't give you any files, you have to manually pin the set you want, and you pin all of it, and it won't automatically change. It's not very convenient for archival, whereas the system I'm talking about would be (in my opinion, anyway).
  • paskozdilar 4y ago
    (How) would you filter junk?
    • stavros 4y ago
      You'd trust the publisher, so you'd say "I want to help the Internet Archive with its archiving" and they'd be responsible for what files they pushed to your storage. This is basically an opportunistic, distributed filesystem that's designed to work with high latency links. Only the tracker can write to its nodes, but anyone can read.
      • thanatos519 4y ago
        This, and easy-to-configure bandwidth throttling was sorely missing from IPFS last time I tried it. Being able to specify "use 50% of storage to cache low-traffic things, and the other 50% for high-traffic things" would be amazing.
    • Brian_K_White 4y ago
      Not part of the question or problem statement as I see it.