the top comment <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580334> by saurik (yes, that one) on the previous 121 comment thread back in 2020 sums up my feelings about the situation: BTFS is a "one CID at a time" version of IPFS
I do think IPFS is awesome, but is going to take some major advances in at least 3 areas before it becomes something usable day-to-day:
1. not running a local node proxy (I hear that Brave has some built-in WebTorrent support, so maybe that's the path, but since I don't use Brave I can't say whether they are "WebTorrent in name only" or what
2. related to that, the swarm/peer resolution latency suffers in the same way that "web3 crypto tomfoolery" does, and that latency makes "browsing" feel like the old 14.4k modem days
3. IPFS is absolutely fantastic for infrequently changing but super popular content, e.g. wikipedia, game releases, MDN content, etc, but is a super PITA to replace "tip" or "main" (if one thinks of browsing a git repo) with the "updated" version since (to the best of my knowledge) the only way folks have to resolve that newest CID is IPNS and DNS is never, ever going to be a "well, that's a good mechanism and surely doesn't contribute to one of the N things any outage always involves"
I'm aware that I have spent an inordinate amount of words talking about a filesystem other than the one you submitted, but unlike BTFS, which I would never install, I think that those who click on this and are interested in the idea of BTFS may enjoy reading further into IPFS, but should bear in mind my opinion of its current shortcomings
I do think IPFS is awesome, but is going to take some major advances in at least 3 areas before it becomes something usable day-to-day:
1. not running a local node proxy (I hear that Brave has some built-in WebTorrent support, so maybe that's the path, but since I don't use Brave I can't say whether they are "WebTorrent in name only" or what
2. related to that, the swarm/peer resolution latency suffers in the same way that "web3 crypto tomfoolery" does, and that latency makes "browsing" feel like the old 14.4k modem days
3. IPFS is absolutely fantastic for infrequently changing but super popular content, e.g. wikipedia, game releases, MDN content, etc, but is a super PITA to replace "tip" or "main" (if one thinks of browsing a git repo) with the "updated" version since (to the best of my knowledge) the only way folks have to resolve that newest CID is IPNS and DNS is never, ever going to be a "well, that's a good mechanism and surely doesn't contribute to one of the N things any outage always involves"
I'm aware that I have spent an inordinate amount of words talking about a filesystem other than the one you submitted, but unlike BTFS, which I would never install, I think that those who click on this and are interested in the idea of BTFS may enjoy reading further into IPFS, but should bear in mind my opinion of its current shortcomings