What’s the state of IPFS?

I remember a few years ago there was excitement about using it to back video distribution but that seems to have fizzeled out.

Is there any video streaming service using IPFS?

Is the IPFS network growing? What is the best way to see the health of IPFS?

  • mister_monsterEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    So I love IPFS, I love the idea of it. I think it’s great.

    But try integrating it into a project and see what happens. Here is a fun example. Development of IPFS is unfortunately a disorganized mess.

    I’d love to build an application that loads resources from IPFS, such as a library specifically for books that stores an index of books, like libgen, or uncensorable front ends for smart contracts and things, but IPFS integration is sub par. The situation all round just sucks.

  • dauerstaender@feddit.de
    151·
    1 year ago

    I lost interest when they started with their cryptocurrency bs, otherwise it’s stable and works.

  • Mubelotix@jlai.lu
    10·
    1 year ago

    For the exact same reason that nobody is building new centralized video platforms. It’s just expensive to create

    There is progress on IPFS as we speak though, I’m building a p2p search engine for it

  • Nato Boram@lemm.eeEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    Well, you’d need to make a video-hosting site in the first place. And you need to host all the videos even if you use IPFS if you don’t want to provide a bad experience, so you don’t escape any of the problems of hosting a video-hosting website. IPFS has its own challenges it adds over regular video-hosting site challenges.

    So, it’s not really worth it.

  • Klaymore@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    1 year ago

    What I read a while ago was that it had too high latency and/or not enough speed to run video streaming for Peertube. It seems like there’s been some work done on getting Nix(OS) working over IPFS, and they asked about it on their latest community survey, but idk how much they’re focusing on it.

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Years ago Tribler was trying to create streaming via Bit Torrent. Seems like something similar could be done with IPFS. Blockchains and Distributed Hash Tables aren’t really that different.

    What does D-Tube use?

    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      I know that DTube used to use IPFS since that’s how I know about it, but I don’t know if they’re still doing it. I know there was a problem where after a short while every video was deleted.

  • pexavc@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I have been mapping out a possible way to do this. Pickling and scattering frames across the network, coupled with a client that stitches and buffers into a video. Whereas the manifest for each frame hash is compiled and stored separately.

    I feel such a service is definitely possible. As for consumer/product worthiness I feel the other comments kind of covers the variables as to why you probably haven’t found a strong solution yet to streaming.

    I definitely feel it is growing or at least it’s still in active development. I feel a lot of people either haven’t grasped it yet (aside from the NFT craze) or are not fond of the process of deleting content stored onto the network. Also a true real-time experience would require some more research on latency.

  • diamond_shield@reddthat.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    There’s this project: https://watchit.movie/#/ https://github.com/ZorrillosDev/watchit-app

    I never got to try it, but they are doing exactly what you want it seems. I don’t know how much of their backend they have open-sourced, though. I definitely need to research this more.

    They do have a matrix channel and a fediverse presence, so they already look quite alright from the start, and the project is very interesting.