My understanding is that if i put something on the internet, someone else could decide to copy that file and also host it so it's available from more sources than just the original one. But if that file is something that will update, for example an HTML page that's primarily a directory, how can mirrors of my file tell when i update this and also update themselves accordingly? Especially since the new file will have a different IPFS address than the old one?

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Hello, since it's complicated to index DHTs, I figured it'd be more efficient to build an index of fingerprints from real data once.

So I've been collecting releases hashes for this index. It can be used for various purposes:

• check the integrity of your own files (bit rot is a real thing)
• identify BTv2 torrent files that contain specific files (a database of torrent files is required)
• locate alive IPFS swarms to join more easily (no need to read all your data multiple times to recompute various CIDs yourself)

The collection contains around 1K releases and weights 40MB. I've prioritized scene Bluray rips of movies (1080p / 2160p). No infohash will be included, as these are not reproducible enough.

I'm using a basic script to add a new release (filename must match the official release name). I'm using others to discover scene releases in a filesystem; retrieve official release names from files using the srrdb api (crc32 search); collect torrents from Prowlarr and H&R them (although I'd prefer crowd-source directly from the community!).

The index is stored on git to allow collaboration. It is hosted using Radicale to avoid centralization and reduce hosting pressures.

If you are interested, join and add your own hashes to the collection in Radicle patches! (see instructions in the README)

Let me know what you think, suggest improvements or discuss similar projects you know about!

Nico Krause will be talking about P2P apps with libp2p, @ipfs and OrbitDB, at @fosdem '26 #LocalFirst & #CRDTs devroom!

He is working on peer-to-peer syncing CRDTs in OrbitDB, as well as WebAuthN/Passkeys, DIDs, UCANs, decentralised storage and pinning networks.

Come listen to him and the 25 speakers on 1st Feb, from 9:00 at #FOSDEM in Brussels.

It is free! more details:
https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#17-local-first-peer-to-peer-with-orbit-db

@ipfs Nice software

TL;DR Is there anywhere you can pin content, that is actually affordable for hobbyists? I only need 1-2 GB. I'll likely cycle out old pins as I post new blog posts and the site gets updated. I'm looking for sites that cost the same as cloud provider storage. Not the much higher fees all the pinning services seem to be charging for basic pinning.

Longer: I have a small blog that I am hosting on IPFS, it is about 1GB of static content. I am trying to find some pinning services that are actually affordable. But everything is $20/month and up

One of the advantages of IPFS and IPNS was meant to be that we would be able to get cheap distributed storage. To store a static website on Amazon S3 is only a couple cents per month. But all of the pinning services are wanting orders of magnitude above that.

I have a VPC set up that is just pinning my own content. But it would be good to use a more reliable service than my own. But right now all the services price out hobbyists playing with IPFS hosting

So I was reading though this post on the F-droid community when I came up with an idea

https://lemmy.world/post/23416167

What if libp2p was used to make multiplayer mobile games? Think about it, wouldn't it be cool to have a clash or clans alternative that was decentralized and open? There might be some security issues with this idea but I think it would be pretty cool.

I for one remember playing Age of Empires and I would love to see a game with that same style. It would be hard since your phone would need to act as a server sometimes so that other players could attack you. It would also need to account for modified versions of the game.

Currently libp2p for JVM isn't completed yet but it is still fairly powerful.

I have done a bunch of reading and watched a bunch of talks and yet it still blows my mind. You can just pull data from somewhere and it works. Libp2p is even crazier as it allows a bunch of computers to take to one another without any hassle or dedicated provider.

What's your thoughts on the future of p2p? I think a lot of companies are pushing the cloud and SaaS but really I think building an app on a more decentralized model will provide much more cost savings and reliably. I personally don't think the idealized "dapps" or crypto will ever take off with general society but I can imagine a game or a collaboration platform that uses libp2p.

It seems like IPFS would be a decent choice for video content

Just as the title ask. I just want a file hosting site for images and videos but that uses ipfs

Edit: I found https://www.dreamlink.cloud/ pretty neat but doesn't host the file for you and let's you upload anything.

Maybe I'm too dumb and don't understand but it seems to me it's just like that but with end to end encryption and hashing.

I'm all for it but I've just been curious as to what all the hype was about

Many years ago I posted a few pictures to Reddit using IPFS. It didn't go over very well, the pictures were basically not viewable unless I was online with my node running.

How far has IPFS come in the last eight/nine years or so..?

Is it a fairly decent alternative to something like IMGUR, yet?

I've been out of the loop for nearly as many years, too. But, I'm glad to see the project still here and I'm interested in where it's at these days.

(From the IPFS Discord) Hello @everyone! 🥁 drum roll... 🥁

We're excited to be announcing the formation of the **Ecosystem Working Group! **

We believe this working group and its autonomy will be critical in helping propel IPFS toward a better and even brighter future.

Read all about it on the IPFS blog

I like the IPFS technology as an idea, I can pin my files I guess, but I don't know any communities or services that I wanna use that leverage IPFS.

I was wondering what y'all are using.

I want to use a cms and though it would be cool if it integrated with ipfs.

We have over thousand instances and a bunch of them are caching the same images as other instances. Wouldn't it be nice for users to get image from the closest instance? We already have a lot of data overlap and we would need to „just” implement protocol to find the same data and retrieve it to the user.

Not sure whether this fits in here, but maybe it does and someone wants to read it.

If not, I apologize.

[0.6.5] - 2023-03-25

Added

• Web Passwords vault implementation: save passwords from HTML forms and autofill passwords
• ChatGPT integration with the openai python module
  • Implement basics: text completion, image generation
  • Implement translation to languages supported by ChatGPT
  • Implement QML code generation with live preview in a QtQuickWidget