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Re:IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained by antocv on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:45PM (#18651416)
Considering how much resources, github starts, and fanbois IPFS has, and yet the network layer is still shit, bandwidth not utilized to fullest.

Instead of just reusing bittorrents piece-per-peer-exchange-protocol (that greedy not perfect algorithm, forgot its name) - which can saturate even high end links, they invented bitswap, full with bugs, then decided lets make filecoin instead, like a bartering engine of exchanging pieces.

datproject also can saturate my 250mbit connection.

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Re:IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained by mStreamTeam on Monday December 10, 2018 @05:00PM (#18651517)
Thanks for posting. Never heard of DAT before but it looks to be exactly the BitTorrent alternative I've been looking for
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Re:IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained by macawfish on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:56PM (#18652214)
Check out hyperdb and hyperdrive (implementations of the core replicable data structures used in dat)!
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Re:IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained by macawfish on Monday December 10, 2018 @06:13PM (#18651955)
One more note: dat's implementation is quite modular, the hyper* libraries are designed to be replicated in a network-agnostic way.

(Theoretically you can do this with IPFS too, but I love how dat is implemented!)

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Re:IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained by colemickens on Monday December 10, 2018 @09:46PM (#18652987)
I'm trying to get a foothold in this space (this space being whatever the area of camlistore/perkeep - ipfs - dat - etc.

I've also been excited that Dat seems to be investing a Rust implementation that would presumably make Dat accessible from any language that can interoperate with C/Rust.

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Re:IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained by macawfish on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @06:21AM (#18662952)
Yeah, I'm keeping an eye on the rust implementation of hyperdb!
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