IPFS blog: Take a look at pubsub on IPFS

[wscott]

The official IPFS blog just posted an article:

Take a look at pubsub on IPFS

Oddly enough the blog post points at this server to discuss the article, but not one set up a post to for people to discuss it. So discuss it here.

[flyingzumwalt]

Both of these threads are about pubsub and CRDTs:

The Index - Metadata search system for IPFS hashes

If anyone was familiar with The Foundation, it was an IPFS hosted app that I wrote a while ago that allowed you to write descriptions of, and classify, IPFS hashes, upload those, and then have other users search for them so that we could have some sort of organized meta-directory of interesting files. It’s main problem was that it relied on a central server to store the information. I rewrote it once I read about pubsub and realized we could use that for the same purpose, but without having to r…

Persistent P2P Serverless Multi-Party Shared Indexing Capability

The portion of persistency and internet censorship resistance is for IPFS is only partially implemented in my opinion. A scenario which is most compiling to look into is censorship resistant resource indexing and one good example are torrent sites. Lately, a few torrent search engines have mysteriously disappeared and that got me thinking how best to make full use of IPFS to create some sort of a persistent online filesystem so that censorship is rendered almost implausible. In the event that …

[alex]

pub-sub certainly looks interesting, how does it compare to Whisper or other messaging systems? Only in that it doesn’t allow p2p direct communication?
Usually pub-sub systems have certain guarantees regarding delivery and persistence, is this expected from IPFS pub/sub as well? So, “how much” can a consumer rely on it?

[daviddias]

Following up on this thread, get up to date on the latest PubSub primitives by reading the “Distributed PubSub Primitives” post at https://ipfs.io/blog/29-js-ipfs-pubsub/

[es_00788224]

Pubsub is just a protocol. It’s closer to UDP multicast than messaging protocols. If you want to compare it to a messaging protocol, compare it to an open IRC channel that other programs use for networking.