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Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by diggan on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @07:51AM (#37750616)
Well, I guess it depends on your use-case. As a general and public discovery / providing / downloading network, it's been kind of overloaded for the last years, and it finally seems like Protocol Labs is putting some efforts to solving some of the most biting issues.

In this case, it's about the process of adding content to the network. It was neigh impossible to add large directories/files as your connections got overloaded with provide messages. This seems to batch things up and parallelize better, so should at least make it easier to add content and subsequently find it for the peers who want to.

But, the implementation still works very well when you're doing your own networks, which I think is a much better use of the protocol anyways. So when building a application with IPFS, you're using your own network only composed of nodes that are actually relevant to your application, instead of connecting to the public DHT.

Unless your scale is really big, it'll work a lot better than using the already huge public DHT.

Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by londons_explore on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:29AM (#37750961)
I think it would be better to fix the public network than to split the network into millions of local networks...

The public design today still allows actual file transfers to be local over your local network - it is only metadata that goes over the public internet.

Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by diggan on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:35AM (#37751020)
Sure, ideally that'd be the case. But today that kind of isn't feasible as discovering and providing content is slow, but hopefully it gets better in the future with changes like this and more.

But what I wrote is how you can solve the issue today.

Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by 9dev on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:21AM (#37750893)
I hope the irony of a protocol called „Interplanetary file system“ being more suitable for local usage isn’t lost on people :)
Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by diggan on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:23AM (#37750911)
I hope you don't believe I wrote something about that IPFS is only suitable for local usage. You can have your own remote network, spanning whatever nodes/computers/servers you want, remote or otherwise :)
Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by _factor on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:50PM (#37756669)
Funny enough. Interplanetary refers to the ability to know a file created on earth would still hash to the same value if an alien created it on Alpha Centauri. You could both work independently and combine your databases and the distance wouldn’t matter.

That’s seems pretty local to me.

Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by stavros on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:56AM (#37751233)
That's kind of a shame, the appeal of a public, peer-to-peer, content-addressable network was very high to me personally, because of its relative uniqueness. For a personal network, IPFS becomes just another technology I could deploy, out of many options.
Re:Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift by diggan on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @09:23AM (#37751515)
Yeah, definitely I feel the same about the public parts, but I still find the public-but-private network part of it useful in itself. Both have use cases, but currently the public one just isn't feasible to use :/