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:
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.
Xavier Gonzalez
So, what exactly is the advantage of IPFS over torrenting, other than the fact that ISPs don't throttle IPFS yet.
Nolan Johnson
Y E S HOLY FUCK ASGSDFSDF
Tyler Richardson
>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
Brandon Hughes
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.
Leo Myers
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?
John Bailey
Files are files. The only guarantee you have is that the file you received is the file you asked for.
David Cook
I meant is it secure like do I need a vpn or does it have some sort of voodoo magic anonymizer?
Ayden Miller
IPFS has no consideration for anonymity or confidentiality.
Ethan Lewis
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.
Colton Jones
I'm on v60, is it already available?
Noah Collins
Anonymity throught standard p2p is technically impossible, you need some kind of middle man like tor or i2p.
Thomas Powell
What is the difference between ipfs and torrents? Why not just implement magnet://?
>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?
Jaxon Wood
Yes it damn well will!
Grayson Evans
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.
Cooper Rogers
explain for a brainlet: i will be able to visit nntp-chan in vanilla firefox?
Leo Carter
8/tech/ and /t/ have IPFS share threads.
Michael Flores
That has fuckall to do with this. NNTPchan nodes are regular HTTPS.
Leo Cooper
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
Austin Wilson
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.
Jacob Thompson
That just sounds like Peer-exchange and DHT.
Xavier Clark
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.