IPFS is the Distributed Web

Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by lukasb on Sunday October 23, 2016 @05:07PM (#12775429)

IPFS isn't meant to provide hosting. It's meant to help you scale distribution. If Joe Blow's content isn't that popular, he doesn't need IPFS anyway.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by clueless404 on Sunday October 23, 2016 @05:33PM (#12775536)

Ok, so IPFS isn't for hosting and it's not for unpopular content.

What is it for then? For scaling distribution, you say. What problem does it solve? How, what and why? Is it better than BitTorrent for that use case?

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by lukasb on Sunday October 23, 2016 @08:32PM (#12776119)

it's better than bittorrent because you don't need a centralized tracker.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by clueless404 on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:03AM (#12776834)

That's not much of a benefit, as there are tracker less torrents.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by Ericson2314 on Sunday October 23, 2016 @10:15PM (#12776430)

Also content can be incrementally updated without duplication.

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by clueless404 on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:10AM (#12776846)

Ok, when or why would you use IPFS instead of something else?

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by lukasb on Monday October 24, 2016 @01:30AM (#12776883)

lol, you can troll better than that, c'mon :)

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by clueless404 on Monday October 24, 2016 @02:41AM (#12777047)

Are you just unable to answer the question or are you just so new to the interwebz that you think that was a troll?

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Re:IPFS is the Distributed Web by Ericson2314 on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:19PM (#12843102)

ZFS is less flexible in deduplication because it's not true content addressing, and git has lousier protocol. Rsync and unison also have lousier protocol and don't deduplicate storage.

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