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IPFS is resource hungry and lacks a humane way of sharing files aproprietly (you have to manually pin each file you wish to ensure to stay on your disk). A nice idea, thats for sure, but definitively not the endgame.

Torrents are problematic when it comes to privacy. I have to torrent through a VPN for a reason... :/

I believe Nostr can solve that - and I do feel like half of what's needed already exists in lists.

A good file sharing "network", in my opinion, needs to solve these things:

- Announcing files

- Provide files

- Support other nodes by first copying and then also serving the same file

I could see Nostr + Tor/i2p do that, but i2p is quite slow... Still, there is something in this, and we will figure it out! =) #Nostriches are smart. ;)

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Akito 2y ago

#Torrent is the real life solution, as of now.

The reason is simple.

EITHER you get very good privacy via #TOR, for example

OR you get high performance via centralised or otherwise speedy services.

You won't ever get the benefits of #TOR, without poor performance, except #Google throws billions at it, but then it's definitely not safe anymore.

Just recently I read, that #TOR only has like 6000 exit nodes. Like, really? This is the most important privacy network around the globe & we have only like 6000 exit nodes, of which many are probably bullshit, anyway.

So, considering that fact, we aren't even close to getting a performant #Onion network in the near future, except #Google (or whatever too big company) throws billions at it & makes it not safe anymore.

If you wanna have a taste of download speeds via #TOR, try #OnionShare.

https://onionshare.org/

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florian 2y ago

Someone should put lightning on top of tor for exit node runners to be payed. Maybe that would help the adoption.

Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

I am far less concerned about exit nodes, actually. If Tor is used as the network layer through which torrent runs, that's all I would be asking for.

Also, I just remembered that this article exists: https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent

So it seems these folks have at least thought of it... but I am, admittedly, far away from fully understanding i2p. I do intend to learn more about it though and my i2pd router is chugging along just fine. :)

(It says firewalled and low tunnel establishment rate, but that is mainly due to CrowdSec just absolutely cucking some IPs. I've been too lazy to manually exclude some stuff but a lot of IPs get straight up null-routed when trying to access my node, due to CrowdSec adding these blocked IPs to my firewall. I set this up on purpose because I was getting a crapton of traffic on port 22 for my SSH at an alarming rate but I need to have this as a failsafe when nothing else can connect to this anymore...)

Akito 2y ago

It is possible & already done, however the point remains, that performance is usually absolutely terrible.

With bad #Torrent seeders it's already slow, now imagine you add #TOR on top of it...