Hello everyone,

I recently came across an article on TorrentFreak about the BitTorrent protocol and found myself wondering if it has remained relevant in today’s digital landscape. Given the rapid advancements in technology, I was curious to know if BitTorrent has been surpassed by a more efficient protocol, or if it continues to hold its ground (like I2P?).

Thank you for your insights!

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Websites are just files. For something like running a site on ipfs, you’d want to pack everything into a few files, or just one, and serve that. Then you just open that file in the browser, and boom, site.

    I’m not really sure it qualifies as a web site any more at that point, but an ipfs site for sure. Ipfs has links, right?

    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
      2·
      5 days ago

      With LibreWeb I tried to go this route, using IPFS protocol. But like I mention above, IPFS is not as decentralized by design as people might think. People still need to download the content first and hosting a node… And then ALSO pin the content… It’s not great. And look-up takes way too long as well with their DHT look-up.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Well… it’s not really designed for that use case, so yeah you’ll have to deal with issues like that. For interplanetary file transfers, that’s acceptable.

          • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            5 days ago

            Probably the closest thing would be an activitypub blog or static site service.

            • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
              21·
              5 days ago

              ActivityPub is still using centralized DNS. I’m talking about a decentralized Web. And no, activitypub doesn’t scale as good.