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Bittorrent, switch in long-term to that. Not saying every end-user should be a seeder but there is big bittorrent community out there and everyone could help a

Bittorrent, switch in long-term to that. Not saying every end-user should be a seeder but there is big bittorrent community out there and everyone could help a little bit. Other options: - A kind of mirror network (it only needs to keep sure that integrity can be checked, maybe with a public key) - And while doing that why not also support compression (why not? only devs need to read it and they can run easily a decompression command), every bit saved would help.

pmlnr 4y ago
Oh, but yes every user should be a seeder. Why not?
- swinglock 4y ago
  Wouldn't need all users to, and many are mobile or on metered connections.
- matheusmoreira 4y ago
  Mobile connections are usually metered. I'd still seed it 24/7 on my home connection though.
ignoramous 4y ago
> Bittorrent, switch in long-term to that. S3 buckets in IAD with <5GB blobs can double-up as bit-torrent seeders. I'd imagine, some tech IPFS/Filecoin/Sia might come in handy, too, but unsure of how healthy most of these web3 projects are right now. There's also fosstorrents.com that help seed projects.
- srvmshr 4y ago
  Is IPFS strictly Web3? Sure it gained traction around Blockchain, crypto DeFI - but the storage technology is ELI5 a massive distributed storage. I could hazard a guess that in terms of philosophy its closer to BitTorrent than Blockchain
  - kevincox 4y ago
    IPFS is just distributed content discovery and download. Someone advertises the content to the network, then people looking for the content can find it. Usually the people who find it advertise that they now have it to the network too. It has nothing to do with cryptocurrency but is commonly used as a great way to embed "larger" content into blockchains and other immutable stores. It works well for this because 1. The CID contains a cryptographic hash of the expected content 2. You can change where/how you store the actual content without updating the URL.
  - arglebargle123 4y ago
    The tl; dr I've been given is that IPFS is essentially one global DHT swarm with some searchable/discoverable magic on top. Not exactly the same as DHT torrenting but close enough fir the simple explanation.
Denvercoder9 4y ago
Bittorrent won't work, as this list is commonly downloaded by heavily sandboxed browser extensions that can't access torrents.

pmlnr 4y ago

Oh, but yes every user should be a seeder. Why not?

swinglock 4y ago
Wouldn't need all users to, and many are mobile or on metered connections.
matheusmoreira 4y ago
Mobile connections are usually metered. I'd still seed it 24/7 on my home connection though.

ignoramous 4y ago

> Bittorrent, switch in long-term to that. S3 buckets in IAD with <5GB blobs can double-up as bit-torrent seeders. I'd imagine, some tech IPFS/Filecoin/Sia might come in handy, too, but unsure of how healthy most of these web3 projects are right now. There's also fosstorrents.com that help seed projects.

srvmshr 4y ago
Is IPFS strictly Web3? Sure it gained traction around Blockchain, crypto DeFI - but the storage technology is ELI5 a massive distributed storage. I could hazard a guess that in terms of philosophy its closer to BitTorrent than Blockchain
- kevincox 4y ago
  IPFS is just distributed content discovery and download. Someone advertises the content to the network, then people looking for the content can find it. Usually the people who find it advertise that they now have it to the network too. It has nothing to do with cryptocurrency but is commonly used as a great way to embed "larger" content into blockchains and other immutable stores. It works well for this because 1. The CID contains a cryptographic hash of the expected content 2. You can change where/how you store the actual content without updating the URL.
- arglebargle123 4y ago
  The tl; dr I've been given is that IPFS is essentially one global DHT swarm with some searchable/discoverable magic on top. Not exactly the same as DHT torrenting but close enough fir the simple explanation.

Denvercoder9 4y ago

Bittorrent won't work, as this list is commonly downloaded by heavily sandboxed browser extensions that can't access torrents.