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		tux3 on June 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents Nexus - another very large archive - is using IPFS. But in my experience Bittorrent works a lot better at this scale. The IPFS UX is full of papercuts, when it isn't outright bugging out or crumbling under the size of the dataset.

boramalper on June 14, 2024 [–]

IIRC, Nexus is using Iroh[0] instead:

> Starting with v0.3.0, Iroh is a ground-up reimagination of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) focused on performance.

Also see, A New Direction for Iroh[1].

[0] https://www.iroh.computer/docs/

[1] https://www.n0.computer/blog/a-new-direction-for-iroh/

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