IPFS coming to Firefox

Decentralization Protocols

Mozilla has always been aproponent of decentralization, recognizing that it is a key ingredient of a healthy Internet. Starting with Firefox 59, several protocols that support decentralized architectures are available for use by extensions. The newly approved protocols are:

Dat Project(dat://)

IPFS(dweb:// ipfs:// ipns://)

Secure Scuttlebutt(ssb://)


Extensions in Firefox 59 - blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/01/26/extensions-firefox-59/

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Fuck yea!

translate that into nonhipster

ipfs.io/

We can pirate much easier now :)

Not that user, but yeah, we could. IF people would actually build it out and fill it with content, unlike the Sup Forumsentoomen that talked about making an IPFS network to replace nyaa when it went away and then did nothing.

So, what exactly is the advantage of IPFS over torrenting, other than the fact that ISPs don't throttle IPFS yet.

Y E S
HOLY FUCK
ASGSDFSDF

>unlike the Sup Forumsentoomen that talked about making an IPFS network to replace nyaa when it went away and then did nothing
Sup Forums in a nutshell

It's best to think of IPFS as an extension unto torrenting. It mostly inherits the advantages and disadvantages of torrents, while also being a coherent filesystem that supports versioning.
IPFS is designed to power peer to peer applications of any kind, while the torrent protocol was only designed to transfer files.

Oh, cool. Thanks for spelling it out for me.
Not cool. How do we get people to stop being gay niggers?

Is this shit safe or do we still have to treat it like torrents?

Files are files. The only guarantee you have is that the file you received is the file you asked for.

I meant is it secure like do I need a vpn or does it have some sort of voodoo magic anonymizer?

IPFS has no consideration for anonymity or confidentiality.

Then it would seem to me that it is fundamentally flawed.
The way forward is to create something that by its very nature prevents the users from being tracked.

I'm on v60, is it already available?

Anonymity throught standard p2p is technically impossible, you need some kind of middle man like tor or i2p.

What is the difference between ipfs and torrents?
Why not just implement magnet://?

ipfs.io/

it's for the internet
not for your porn

it will still suck

>create some kind of tag database that integrates with IPFS
>scrape boorus and panda of tags
>map md5 hashes to IPFS hashes
>host all your porn on IPFS
>decentralized booru/panda

Could it work?

Yes it damn well will!

I wonder if there are any efforts right now. A nice setup would be to have a text file with hashes in it (where each hash is a file that you would have otherwise downloaded) and a program that can go through each hash and automatically restores the data and metadata locally.

You could essentially backup your entire porn/image collection with a couple of megabytes. After that you could browse the files using a local program that would either re-download them all at once, download them on demand, or temporarily cache them.

explain for a brainlet: i will be able to visit nntp-chan in vanilla firefox?

8/tech/ and /t/ have IPFS share threads.

That has fuckall to do with this. NNTPchan nodes are regular HTTPS.

No, seriously, it just sounds like a re-implementation of the exact same thing.

Torrents
>Peer-to-peer
>File storage is distributed amongst everyone participating
>Uses hashes to identify and verify the files

IPFS
>Peer-to-peer
>File storage is distributed amongst everyone participating
>Uses hashes to identify and verify the files

The difference is that everything is part of the same swarm and can relay blocks from other people. There are also IPNS (persistent name for mutable content) and pub-sub systems.

That just sounds like Peer-exchange and DHT.

Wrong. Blocks can actually transfer from A to B to C with no direct path between A and C and no need for B to be seeding a specific file. It's a much better design.