Hello and thanks for making this community!

I would like to ask a question, I’m the creator of the Tenfingers sharing protocol, and a decentralised FOSS implementation of it.

You can basically have a decentralised web site or share data with anyone.

Would it be appropriate to post asking for help here? Testing and ideas for the future mostly I guess.

Cheers

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    14 minutes ago

    Technically its very different (please do ask if you want to know more!). Usage wise it is a sort of distributed “file system with links” (IPFS is more of a distributed hash table) and it has some base differences:

    • When you change your data, you reuse the same link. So no need to redistribute it.

    • You share other peoples data. It’s the incentive, they share yours because you share theirs. So no need for benevolent nodes like in IPFS.

    • If you overshare (share data from several nodes so that they all share your data) your data is accessible even if your PC or most nodes are down, it makes it potentially very robust and takedown safe. I don’t really know how IPFS handles it when several nodes go down.

    • In my opinion, Tenfingers is very easy to set up, IPFS not so much, haven’t checked it out in a year or three though so that can have changed.

    • IPFS has a very cool name, but Tenfingers too, right :-) ?

    Cheers

    Edit: another difference is that Tenfingers encrypts everything, so without the link you cannot access the shared data in any way, neither by error nor malice. IIRC IPFS link is just a hash, I don’t know if/how the data and its transfers are secured either.