IPFS is a technology very helpful for syncing. One way it's being used in a modern context (although only sub-parts of IPFS stack) is how BlueSky engineers, dur

IPFS is a technology very helpful for syncing. One way it's being used in a modern context (although only sub-parts of IPFS stack) is how BlueSky engineers, during their design process a few years ago, accepted my proposal that for a new Social Media protocol, each user should have his own "Repository" (Basically a Merkel Tree) of everything he's ever posted. Then there's just a "Sync" up to some master service provider node (decentralized set of nodes/servers) for the rest of the world to consume. Merkel-Tree based synching is as performant as you can possibly get (used by Git protocol too I believe) because you can tell of a root of a tree-structure is identical to some other remote tree structure just by comparing the Hash Strings. And this can be recursively applied down any "changed branches" of a tree to implement very fast syncing mechanisms. I think we need a NEW INTERNET (i.e. Web3, and dare I say Semantic Web built in) where everyone's basically got their own personal "Tree of Stuff" they can publish to the world, all naively built into some new kind of tree structure-based killer app. Like imagine having Jupyter Notebooks in Tree form, where everything on it (that you want to be) is published to the web.