Use IPFS for embedded media in wiki?

[micahscopes]

We talked about this possibility before DWeb Camp but it was a stretch goal. Aside from that it's not clear to me that this is something we want to do.

Benefits:

• we wouldn't clog up HHS changes with tons of data!
• could make it easier to pull in existing media

Uncertainties:

• would we need to rely on a gateway?
• do browser IPFS clients have the features we want?

[sbazerque]

I think once the wiki can set priorities to the objects it needs to download (prioritizing the current page and its content) pulling media from peers through HHS will not be problem. Through IPFS we could offload the media stuff to other peers, but then you need to do peer discovery & establish connections to this second set of peers, not sure how much the net gain would be.