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

Well, theoretically then, it’s not made to handle terabytes in terabyte chunks (as when you share, someone else is needed to have something to share roughly the same size), it’s more thought for megabyte chunks of stuff, like a website. Downloading/uploading would be hasardous too for a TB chunk as most people only have megabit speed internet.

So it’s not that it isn’t possible, but you would probably have to chunk up any (legal) data in say 1GB chunks, so that your chunks get shared. If everyone shares 1GB videos of their holidays (for example), it would work easily because your chunks would have people needing to share them.

Edit: edited for clarity

Yep, it’s all on the documentation (with link to git repo at Codeberg) that can be found here: http://tenfingers.org

Thanks!

Yes I’m not advocating for illegal things (but thanks for pointing it out), I advocate for decentralised data sharing, for example your website, a personal-“book” (a crude script for that already exists), a chat (exists, also very crude), share some file without uploading it to google or amazon etc etc etc.