@kaixin sorry about the random question, I was wondering whether interplanetary file system or distributed hash table network object stores are considered contentious in Chinese internet (ie within China's national firewall).

@screwtape
I am sorry but I don't understand what they are. 🙈 Maybe you could provide some examples or explanation?

@kaixin Thank you for helping! A distributed hash table (like ipfs) is where instead of having files like web pages, music files and things on one server, instead, people who recently downloaded them send them to you when you request them.

I wasn't 100% sure this would obviously be allowed or disallowed in Chinese internet.

@screwtape
I suspect whether it is popular here because I heard a lot about it on the Internet but I never encountered any user case. So I doubt there is the need to block them on the national firewall level. However, there are few private torrent sites I know of sharing music\games\films things like that. But they are not mainstream sites and many of them are behind campus network and deny public access. They are more of hobbyist websites hosted by volunteers, maybe from the campus themselves.

@kaixin I guess bittorrent is also an example of a distributed hash table, but I was thinking more like https://technotramp.com/ https://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafybeiakndw5vg7asn5235swrhbim25nzlnoc75lhqgqlrnjawwrm6ok2q/index.htm
( @technotramp @michaldivismusic ) #ipfs

@screwtape well ipfs.io is definitely blocked by GFW and I can only visit through a proxy. And I didn't know any user case for IPFS in China either.

@kaixin I guess so, though outside China, the company Cloudflare hosts a lot of "edge computing" ipfs content so it could conceivably be a beef with the external Cloudflare as such.