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Or progress on useful stuff like an encrypted Dropbox clone or something. Everytime I see ipfs stuff it's about silly crypto things.

inhumantsar 3y ago
IPFS isn't the right use case for a dropbox clone. It behaves like a CDN with no persistence guarantees. Arweave is better suited to archival storage. There are options for participants to ban particular types of content which may be illegal to host in their jurisdiction. This was designed to prevent the spread of CP, terrorism related info, etc. but that means it is also susceptible to DCMA issues too. https://www.arweave.org/ https://www.arweave.org/
- brunoqc 3y ago
  > IPFS isn't the right use case for a dropbox clone. It behaves like a CDN with no persistence guarantees. Peergos kinda do it but maybe it's only for the transport and it uses S3 or something like that. > Arweave is better suited to archival storage Thanks, I'll take a look. I wish there was more exciting ipfs news beside nfts. EDIT: Arweave seems to be part of the crypto/web3 thing I'm not a fan of.
  - imtringued 3y ago
    Arweave promises a perpetual motion machine. Prepaying for storage is good but there is no way it is permanent.
colinsane 3y ago
way back (well before Ethereum and NFTs), i hosted a blog on IPFS. DNS level stuff: - TXT record with an IPFS content identifier - A record pointing to an IPFS gateway that ran on my laptop (and was restricted to only serving my own content) - fallback A records that pointed to the public IPFS gateways i could publish new content from my laptop, and as long as i had one other reader who browsed it via native IPFS (i did), then i could pretty safely not worry about my own uptime. that was pretty useful to me at the time who had no clue how to be a sysadmin and keep good uptime and whatnot.
- brunoqc 3y ago
  I like this about ipfs. I don't understand why ipfs didn't lit the world on fire yet and they only seems to care about web3/crypto/nft these days.
  - acdha 3y ago
    IPFS doesn’t solve the major problems most people have: you still need to pay for guaranteed hosting and most content in the world is private, not something you want to share widely. Toss in the designed-in performance issues and it’s less surprising that it’s remained a niche.
ianopolous 3y ago
Peergos is the most advanced encrypted dropbox clone on ipfs. Disclaimer, founder here. We even extend the block retrieval protocol so encrypted blocks are not public - like most data in ipfs - you need auth to retrieve them: https://peergos.org/posts/bats https://peergos.org/posts/bats In terms of block stores we support local disk, or S3 compatible. You can log in through any peergos instance (including localhost) and your writes are persisted directly to your instance. The whole thing is also independent of DNS and the TLS CAs (except of course if you use a public web interface)
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inhumantsar 3y ago

IPFS isn't the right use case for a dropbox clone. It behaves like a CDN with no persistence guarantees. Arweave is better suited to archival storage. There are options for participants to ban particular types of content which may be illegal to host in their jurisdiction. This was designed to prevent the spread of CP, terrorism related info, etc. but that means it is also susceptible to DCMA issues too. https://www.arweave.org/ https://www.arweave.org/

brunoqc 3y ago
> IPFS isn't the right use case for a dropbox clone. It behaves like a CDN with no persistence guarantees. Peergos kinda do it but maybe it's only for the transport and it uses S3 or something like that. > Arweave is better suited to archival storage Thanks, I'll take a look. I wish there was more exciting ipfs news beside nfts. EDIT: Arweave seems to be part of the crypto/web3 thing I'm not a fan of.
- imtringued 3y ago
  Arweave promises a perpetual motion machine. Prepaying for storage is good but there is no way it is permanent.

colinsane 3y ago

way back (well before Ethereum and NFTs), i hosted a blog on IPFS. DNS level stuff: - TXT record with an IPFS content identifier - A record pointing to an IPFS gateway that ran on my laptop (and was restricted to only serving my own content) - fallback A records that pointed to the public IPFS gateways i could publish new content from my laptop, and as long as i had one other reader who browsed it via native IPFS (i did), then i could pretty safely not worry about my own uptime. that was pretty useful to me at the time who had no clue how to be a sysadmin and keep good uptime and whatnot.

brunoqc 3y ago
I like this about ipfs. I don't understand why ipfs didn't lit the world on fire yet and they only seems to care about web3/crypto/nft these days.
- acdha 3y ago
  IPFS doesn’t solve the major problems most people have: you still need to pay for guaranteed hosting and most content in the world is private, not something you want to share widely. Toss in the designed-in performance issues and it’s less surprising that it’s remained a niche.

ianopolous 3y ago

Peergos is the most advanced encrypted dropbox clone on ipfs. Disclaimer, founder here. We even extend the block retrieval protocol so encrypted blocks are not public - like most data in ipfs - you need auth to retrieve them: https://peergos.org/posts/bats https://peergos.org/posts/bats In terms of block stores we support local disk, or S3 compatible. You can log in through any peergos instance (including localhost) and your writes are persisted directly to your instance. The whole thing is also independent of DNS and the TLS CAs (except of course if you use a public web interface)

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