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> Has it? I have never seen anybody using IPFS in the wild Every time someone downloads a book from a shadow library like Library Genesis, it's through IPFS mo
by tutfbhuf 3y ago
> Has it? I have never seen anybody using IPFS in the wild
Every time someone downloads a book from a shadow library like Library Genesis, it's through IPFS most of the time, often via an IPFS gateway such as Cloudflare's IPFS gateway, so you don't even notice it's using IPFS. These shadow libraries have millions of users per day, especially academics.
- shuckles 3y agoI’ve recently observed that both IPFS and the Cloudflare gateways are extremely unreliable on Libgen.
- poopsmithe 3y agoThat's besides the point. The point being made was that IPFS is being used in production. You bring up a valid point though. From my experience, IPFS suffers from a tragedy of the commons issue. It's performance is generally terrible because the free providers are overloaded.
- shuckles 3y agoNot really: > Every time someone downloads a book from a shadow library like Library Genesis, it's through IPFS most of the time I would like to see evidence this is actually true. My theory is that IPFS's "success" in hosting Libgen is roughly turning ICO proceeds into free hosting. Paying for dedicated servers might have been more cost efficient and, given the performance issues, more robust!
- beaugunderson 3y ago100%, and same for Standard Template Construct. There are basically no reliable IPFS gateways with book or paper content. They all get struck from the more reliable gateways immediately.
- shuckles 3y agoUnfortunate behavior in an apocalypse-proof distributed filesystem.
- grotorea 3y agoSo what we already knew, IPFS is a slightly better torrent.
- anacrolix 3y agoIt's a significantly worse BitTorrent. BitTorrent is fantastic.