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Popegaf | 4 years ago

Is this comparable to IPFS running on I2P?

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grumbel|4 years ago

Freenet feels very similar to IPFS, but it differs under the hood. On Freenet the network itself is the data store, you don't host your own files, you upload them and they spread over the network. If you go offline, the files still remain on the network. On IPFS on the other side you are storing your own files and the network is just used for lookup and caching. Everything on Freenet is also encrypted, so you don't get the content-addressability benefits (e.g. dedup) you get on IPFS.

summm|4 years ago

Freenet uses convergent encryption, so you do get deduplication.

SilverRed|4 years ago

What is the discard policy? If I upload 10TB of random junk, where does it go and how long will it be stored?