@shibao@Moon I think you may be right, although I don't understand in detail how IPFS works. Someone, somewhere, has to keep the object or all of its segments.
@Moon in relation to this? >In June 2023, Invidious received a take-down order from YouTube.[14][15] The cease and desist notice followed recent "experiments" by YouTube of blocking non-premium users who use an ad-blocking web browser.[16][17]
Remember that torrents are very much a here and now kind of source. They only exist as long as someone seeds. And that can fail. For example, I'm seeding Ginban Caleidoscope but there aren't any trackers for it anymore. BoxTorrents nee BakaBT keeps the last one, but they blacklist my client due to incorrect regex. Many such cases.
CID being distinct from IPFS' implementation is going to be needed going forward, it's hard to tell people to install such a laggy behemoth just to eat double disk space and sit heavy on the network.
@Moon@shibao@zaitcev yup its basically dht-only torrents. libp2p is heavily based on bittorrent, but the protocol is tweaked slightly for better cryptoshit since there is never a tracker unlike bt.
files are split in to fixed size chunks, clients go poke around the distributed hash tables to find who has those chunks and requests them. they get stuck in caches by whoever downloads them until the cache decides to purge it. you can "pin" content to prevent it. (they don't call them seeders.)