[HN Gopher] How IPFS is broken
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       How IPFS is broken
        
       Author : harporoeder
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-12-22 22:13 UTC (48 minutes ago)
        
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       | timdaub wrote:
        
       | stavros wrote:
       | I can't say I disagree with any of this (except maybe the
       | cryptocurrency bit), this was my experience as well. I even made
       | a pinning service (https://eternum.io) years ago, but I shut it
       | down after having to deal with the umpteenth frustration of the
       | IPFS server being slow, not discovering data, not pinning, taking
       | up all the resources, taking up all the space, not pinning,
       | failing to find other nodes, and not pinning.
       | 
       | I think IPFS is a great idea, but I don't think IPFS is a good
       | IPFS. Give me something that is a content-addressable network of
       | people who want to archive/store sets, that sounds like a much
       | better thing.
       | 
       | Imagine: You have 200 GB of free disk space and you want to
       | donate it to the Internet Archive. You connect to its tracker and
       | say "give me 200 GB of your rarest content". The tracker obliges,
       | and soon you have 200 GB of blocks. Or, you can ask people to
       | help you keep your site online, so they pin up to X GB of it. Or,
       | you dedicate Y GB to your OS's packages, and you can fetch them
       | from and send them to other people without needing to contact the
       | package servers at all.
       | 
       | This sounds very much like "BitTorrent but with extensible data
       | sets". Maybe I'll see if it's close enough that I can build it
       | without too much hassle, hmm...
        
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