This interview was very interesting – IPFS is functional now - it’s quite similar to SAFE in that it uses DHT for storage. (It is not nearly as encryption centered) A lot of the issues we debate on this forum where discussed in this video as “water under the bridge” as to why he architected IPFS the way they did.
i dont get it, is it released yet
It’s at an alpha release, but yes, it works…
It has a lot of the same goals as SAFE – Basically the opportunistic caching, and distributed hash table file structure… It doesn’t do the chunking and self-encrypting. It doesn’t seem to be nearly as privacy oriented as SAFE… (You can see the IP addresses of your peers) The clients only store what they download intentionally… But if your neighbor has the file you don’t have to go all the way back to the source to fetch it…
The demo on that website give a pretty good overview…