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!

  • FundMECFSResearchEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    That’s just for files though. Imagine a specific decentralised protocol for hosting websites.

    You can technically host a website on IPFS but it’s a nightmare and makes updating the website basically impossible 2021 wikipedia IPFS Mirror. A specific protocol would make it far more accessible.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      5 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·
        4 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·
          4 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.