116
What do you think is the future of file sharing? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
56 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

There are now many technologies for P2P file sharing:

  • Usenet
  • Bittorrent
  • IPFS
  • Tenfinger
  • more?

And also several technologies for anonymization:

  • VPNs
  • Tor
  • I2P

AFAICT the most popular option is still Bittorrent with various public and private trackers and indexers. Private trackers seem to be the most effective option that communities have converged on.

I've tried all of the above solutions over the years and while I think something like I2P sounds great in theory, it doesn't seem to actually work well in practice. Because it's not terribly popular, it's hard to know what to expect.

We clearly still haven't found the ideal model that can provide both good performance, discovery, access, availability, and anonymity. But do you think we will actually make progress on these problems? We seem to have stabilized on a local maximum.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

I stumbled upon it this weekend, it's impressive! Looks like the original IPFS vision: uniquely identifiable files. Much more simple: no custom DHT, no block identifier, just blake3 CIDs and Mainline DHT. So less potential scalability issues, less protocol complexity, less swarm fragmentation. And written is rust. https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh-share/

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent