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by momack2 6y ago
IPNS records still have a default 24hr lifetime, but republishing your IPNS records is now much MUCH faster, so it should be much cheaper to run a process to republish these regularly. I assume you can also bump up your lifetime to >24hr
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by momack2 6y ago
We do use Kademlia - but note this release actually runs 2 DHTs - one for LAN connections and one for WAN connections. You could easily imagine a small Mars outpost as the LAN DHT where you can do fast retrieval for all content already avai
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by momack2 7y ago
Brave embeds IPFS Companion - which allows you to have an embedded js-ipfs node in your browser! https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmSHE8RjeP59WamMrgEmaDnDFASui2hainG7BZ3...
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by momack2 7y ago
In Brave you need to either run a local node (ex using IPFS Desktop), or enable the embedded js-ipfs node in the IPFS Companion settings - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmYoZWq5Q23kv5P2vkmLUqRRjdMgqTd3kuggezo... . Still room to
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by momack2 7y ago
Curious why you guys didn’t got with IPFS by default? Is it related to how you wanted to incentivize backups by default, or was there a more technical reason?
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by momack2 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everipedia alone is 3M monthly active users.
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by momack2 7y ago
Exactly. IPFS has millions of end users and hundreds of apps storing data on the decentralized network, creating demand for decentralized persistence of that data. Current solution is to either run your own IPFS node or pay a pinning serv
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IPFS Project 2020 Focus(blog.ipfs.io)
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by momack2 7y ago
You can check out this recent article comparing the two: https://medium.com/@jaygraber/comparing-ipfs-and-dat-8f3891d... -- they have their own foci and technical decisions (ex IPFS is aiming for more general content a
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by momack2 7y ago
Agreed - having a lot of gateways helps ( https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ ), but eventually integration directly with browsers is the upgrade path: https://blog.ipfs.io/2019-10-08-ipfs-brow
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by momack2 7y ago
The really awesome thing about gateways over central hosts is if one goes offline you can still easily access & verify the content from one of the many other gateways ( https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/
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by momack2 7y ago
Some estimates here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot -- the most recent listed study (2017) estimates a half life of ~2 years for an average link on Yahoo.
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by momack2 7y ago
IPFS and ENS work pretty seamlessly together ( https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/ethdns-9d56298f... ), but some folks also want the mutable pointers layer of IPNS too. We're working on making that faster:
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by momack2 7y ago
Hey IPFS person here. We actually made a change to ipfs-desktop back in Feb of last year to reduce the default connection limit to ~300 ( https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop/pull/828 ), and also to se
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by momack2 7y ago
Been an early tester and really enjoy the slick UI and ease of use. Best part was the ease of mind when editing offline - didn't have to worry about my notes getting lost or corrupted (I'm scarred from so many bad experiences with
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by momack2 7y ago
Gotcha! Thank you! Running a pinning service definitely still has rough edges =/ but I know the Infura team recently open sourced some of the tooling they built to make it a bit easier: https://blog.infura.io/new-tools-
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by momack2 7y ago
Better rsync support is actually in the works (though probably still a ~quarter out to land end to end in go-ipfs). The two main components are improving ipfs "mount" support, and adding metadata support into unixfs so we can only
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by momack2 7y ago
Sorry to hear about your bad experience, StavrosK. I think this perspective really depends how you're trying to use IPFS. For example, the ease of use of running a local IPFS node has improved a ton with IPFS-desktop & companion, a
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by momack2 7y ago
IPFS person here. I can relate some frustrations / concerns that people sometimes have with IPFS - and happy to also chat about your specific use case and whether IPFS is a good fit! 1. network performance / reliability / sc
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by momack2 7y ago
That's awesome! See active work in progress on DHT bootstrapping here: https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht/issues/387
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by momack2 7y ago
What IPFS means by 'immutability' is that the mapping from id-->content will never change. That doesn't mean that the content will always be available on the network and accessible to any viewer. If you remove the conten
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by momack2 7y ago
While IPFS has been used successfully for censorship resistance (ex the Catalonian independence movement: http://la3.org/~kilburn/blog/catalan-government-bypass-ipfs/ ), I completely agree that anonymity is
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by momack2 7y ago
Not sure where you got that info, but AFAIK that is incorrect. While everyone running their own infra has the responsibility to comply with local laws (or face local consequences) - there is no central network allow/denylist. Every sin
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by momack2 7y ago
There's an annoying misconception that IPFS is "free storage" - it's not. If you care about something sticking around on the network, you need to take action to ensure that happens: either as an individual pinning it to
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by momack2 7y ago
IPFS person here - there are a ton of improvements to the libp2p DHT in the works (many which also relate to bootstrapping efficiency), but a key component of shipping these to an active 100K+ node network like IPFS is testing and validatio
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by momack2 7y ago
Valid point - I'm a huge consumer of posts where people experiment with new solutions and share it back with the community (like the author's other blog post on how to set up static website hosting with IPFS: http://127
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by momack2 7y ago
genius. why a focus on refer headers from news sites instead of using some content identifier to indicate whether to route to a more static or dynamic page?
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by momack2 7y ago
Definitely check out the latest version: https://blog.ipfs.io/054-go-ipfs-0.4.22 - significant bandwidth improvements since 0.4.19 and more coming in the next minor release too!
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by momack2 7y ago
In IPFS "the servers" aren't restricted to the original content hosts / large-scale CDNs / a single corp, so saying "the load is being transferred to the IPFS servers" doesn't take into account the fa
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by momack2 7y ago
https://www.ipse.io/ is one of the various IPFS search engines - but it doesn't look like it's indexed this article yet...

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