Danny O'Bsitting in a room with #IPFS hackers new and old #ipfsconnect
If you don't know #ipfs , it's a peer-to-peer system for finding and then distributing data to and from you, wherever you are, whereever the data is, without unnecessary intermediaries. https://github.com/ipfs/awesome-ipfs
Alaric Snell-Pym@danny what's the state of the art with sharing files from edge devices without using a centralised pinning service? Durin, for instance, when I try to upload a 7MiB file, gives me an error from web3.storage suggesting it's trying to pin the file there for me (and failing, for some reason). Sharing content from phones could be a big use case, but intermittent low-bandwidth connectivity is a challenge for running a full node joining the DHT and all that.
@danny when I use kubo to "ipfs add" from my laptop behind NAT and then try to find that cid from another device it's touch and go as to whether it turns up at all after a long wait, so I'm wondering if content delivery other than from well-placed persistent globally addressible nodes like pinning services use is a solved problem yet :-)
@kitten_tech i know Kubo's NAT-busting has got better recently, but I hear you. The feedback I'm getting at the moment is that Kubo's defaults are not optimised for the NATted laptop lifestyle, and that the correct tweaks aren't easy to dig up. I've dreamt of an "ipfs doctor" subcommand but amn't entirely sure how to write it.