IPFSify Documentation

Re:IPFSify Documentation by stavros on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:27AM (#28033828)

I've never had many good experiences with IPFS (and I've created a lot of stuff for it, including a pinning service). It frequently fails to find content on the DHT, it's very slow, a resource hog, my ticket for improving the pinning interface has stagnated for years, and Juan Benet once called me a Karen on Twitter for complaining about a regression that broke IPNS pinning.

I love the theoretical idea, but the execution? I wish them luck, but it's useless to me.

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Re:IPFSify Documentation by jonathanstrange on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:52AM (#28034364)

I haven't tried IPFS so far but can second this sentiment somewhat for my experience using go-libp2p. It's not only surprisingly limited in certain respects and unusually complicated to use, the forums for it are the most unhelpful I've ever encountered. Reasonable questions remain completely unanswered, or it takes two weeks for someone to reply with an unhelpful answer (usually along the lines "I don't know either").

My impression is that the active contributors do not want people to use go-libp2p in their own projects.

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Re:IPFSify Documentation by thomashop on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:01AM (#28034769)

I'm using IPFS to host generative media for https://pollinations.ai and it has been quite stable and fun to use. I think it has been getting a lot better in recent months.

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Re:IPFSify Documentation by stavros on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:07AM (#28034805)

I hope so, I haven't used it much recently, maybe it did improve. Do you expose your CIDs so we can visit on IPFS?

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Re:IPFSify Documentation by thomashop on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:35AM (#28034943)

The results are automatically tweeted at the moment: https://twitter.com/pollinations_ai

You can get the CID by following the URL and then clicking on "ContentID"

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