ipfs VS web3.storage

Compare ipfs vs web3.storage and see what are their differences.

ipfs

IPFS implementation in JavaScript (by ipfs)

web3.storage

DEPRECATED ⁂ The simple file storage service for IPFS & Filecoin (by web3-storage)
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ipfs web3.storage
29 81
7,434 498
- 0.4%
8.7 8.5
10 months ago 16 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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ipfs

Posts with mentions or reviews of ipfs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-03.

web3.storage

Posts with mentions or reviews of web3.storage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.
  • Show HN: Encrypt and upload files to IPFS from browser
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2023
  • Which data is currently decentralized stored on IPFS?
    5 projects | /r/ipfs | 4 May 2023
    Web3.Storage and other similar projects run a network of IPFS nodes that allow users to store whatever content they like, as a kind of competitor to Dropbox or Google Drive: this could be their personal content, or again, any application content, because some apps integrate directly with this service via their API
  • Holders! Please tell me how you use filecoin
    2 projects | /r/filecoin | 27 Apr 2023
    Typically app developers would be the ones to build on Filecoin and you would choose an app like web3.storage to store your data. As a consumer you dont have to directly hold FIL but you benefit from the Filecoin ecosystem.
  • Facebook is aggressively going after LLaMA repos with DMCA's
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2023
    clone repos to your computer, dont just fork them

    the fork disappears when the parent repository is taken down, clones stay on your machine

    upload to IPFS. you can pin on IPFS for free with filecoin. Use filecoin nodes to pin on ipfs at https://web3.storage

  • How can I host my file in filecoin?
    2 projects | /r/filecoin | 14 Mar 2023
    As for storing data on Filecoin directly, that would require making a deal with a Filecoin Storage Provider; doing so is currently a complex task but reading the documentation should get you somewhere. You will need a small amount of the FIL token to make the deal with an SP, who will then store your data. Keep in mind that something like web3.storage or Estuary.tech may be better for your needs if you need easy access to the files later; Filecoin can (currently) be thought of as closer to archival storage, but efforts are being made to make it more generally useful too.
    2 projects | /r/filecoin | 14 Mar 2023
    easiest is to use filecoin using some provider who has IPFS <-> Filecoin gateway for example web3.storage . Upload using IPFS and they will push it to filecoin.
  • New realtime database for IPFS
    4 projects | /r/ipfs | 7 Mar 2023
    Doing a js-ipfs backend would be straightforward and wouldn't change the app API, so it totally makes sense to do that. I tend to see it as a both/and situtation, and the current core makes no assumptions about network either way. Adding web3.storage was just a ~200 loc React hook, so I bet the js-ipfs bridge would also be that easy.
    4 projects | /r/ipfs | 7 Mar 2023
    In my TodoMVC example I built up the local database which a bunch of data, enabled web3.storage replication, and then deleted my local IndexedDB. It was fun to watch the blocks fetch over the network but it's not optimzed yet (it doesn't know the second block's address til it reads it from the first's) but I can remove that bottleneck.
  • Let’s Build an Encrypted Image Uploader with IPFS, Lit Protocol, and Web3Auth
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2023
    The last service we use is the one we know from the previous article, Web3Storage. It allows us to upload our encrypted files to the Filecoin network to access them via IPFS. The cool thing about this service: the accounts are user-owned and not app owned. While Web3Storage allows app-owned accounts, meaning the files will be managed by the app's creator, it also allows user-owned accounts that require the users to manage their uploads. It comes with a generous free tier, so the users can start uploading without paying anything.
  • I wish I could "seed" a server like a torrent, has there been any work to make this possible?
    5 projects | /r/Mastodon | 12 Nov 2022
    web3.storage

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ipfs and web3.storage you can also consider the following projects:

webtorrent - ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

nft.storage - 😋 Free decentralized storage and bandwidth for NFTs on IPFS and Filecoin.

orbitdb - Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web

dat - :floppy_disk: peer-to-peer sharing & live syncronization of files via command line [ DEPRECATED - More info on active projects and modules at https://dat-ecosystem.org/ ]

kad

ipfs-desktop - An unobtrusive and user-friendly desktop application for IPFS on Windows, Mac and Linux.

speed-test - Test your internet connection speed and ping using speedtest.net from the CLI

turf - A modular geospatial engine written in JavaScript and TypeScript

go-ipfs-api - The go interface to ipfs's HTTP API

js-git - A JavaScript implementation of Git.

js-libp2p - The JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack.

slate - WIP - We're building the place you go to discover, share, and sell files on the web.