How IPFS is broken

Re:How IPFS is broken by cropcirclbureau on Thursday December 23, 2021 @11:56AM (#29663679)

Hello, you appear to be well versed in the state of IPFS. If you don't mind, in your views, are there any stumbling blocks in the design and implementation of IPFS that could prevent it from achieving itss ambitions? Or maybe big, current challenges it's facing that might hamper its adoption? Things being worked on?

Thanks.

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Re:How IPFS is broken by hecturchi on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:20PM (#29665395)

IPFS domaim is very wide so different issues affect different parts in different ways.

One major hurdle is browsers not being made for p2p. We will need http gateways and other centralized compatibility layers for the time being, which are costly and very prone to abuse. I have hopes in better webrtc support to improve interop with browsers.

Other than that, a DHT at the scales we aim for in terms of indexed content is a problem when 95% of nodes are clients which don't contribute to it. NAT hole punching and supernodes will help.

With IPFS becoming the delivery layer for content stored on Filecoin, and being the standard storage layer for NFTs, there are certainly incentives for the protocols to be used and usage to keep growing heavily.

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