IPFS Powers the Distributed Web
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The InterPlanetary File System is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol designed to preserve and grow humanity's knowledge by making the web upgradeable, resilient, and more open.
      • Despotic Machine@lemmy.world
        41·
        1 year ago

        It is a brand new project from the Cult of the Dead Cow. It will grow quickly. It is much more sophisticated than either ipfs or tor, combining the advantages of both into a new framework for apps to be developed on top of. I think it will be a game changer.

        • PropaGandalf@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Well Idk but they are always talking about a network for apps. But what I want to see is a decentralized storage. Nothing less nothing more. Thats what IPFS is supposed to be. What other build on top is a whole different story. I think we should put our efforts together instead of trying to reinvent the weel.

          • Despotic Machine@lemmy.world
            31·
            1 year ago

            It’s a development framework/platform for apps to run in/on. It already has decentralized record storage built in via a modern DHT scheme, and they are working to introduce block storage soon via the RPC protocol. Peers will be able to advertise what they have via the hash, and the DHT provides the searching so the data can be obtained from wherever it is. So unlike current IPFS/DHT, there’s no more hoping one peer can keep it alive. Popular data becomes more available automatically.

            Veilid is way beyond IPFS. If you have ever used IPFS then you know well of it’s drawbacks. This aims to fix those, as well as the drawbacks inherent in Tor, while providing the benefits of both, with some advanced bittorrent functionality baked in.

            Here are more details if you are interested:

            The Internals of Veilid, a New Distributed Application Framework

            • PropaGandalf@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 year ago

              Ok this sounds a lot better now. As you explained it Vailid can also be used for storage purposes only? Like a distributed public file storage? And if apps can access this storage this is more than welcome. But I’m more concerned about the foundation.

              • Despotic Machine@lemmy.world
                3·
                1 year ago

                Or even distributed private storage with multi-writer support. All fully encrypted. It all depends on the apps that have yet to be developed. It’s a brand new framework the CDC just announced at Defcon this year. The reason why I think it will be a game changer is because Cult of the Dead Cow have a good reputation of getting things done, and they know what they are doing.