Thanks, I haven't heard of it before. I wonder if it's possible to use OrbitDB to download a file from IPFS though? Based on it's CID, I mean, because that was my intention with Helia. I thought that one of the nice thing about reading books is that it takes time, and if users could be seeding their files from IndexedDB to the network, they could automatically and effortlessly become "contributing citizens".
Another interesting use case would be to see if this can replace (or be an addition to) SQLite as the database in which the queries are ran.
Yes it is, and you're absolutely right with raising this concern. I was planning to make seeding (if I get it working at all) an opt-in feature, firstly to prevent excessive data usage on mobile connections.
I had to look that term up <https://github.com/ipfs/helia#readme> but while sniffing around in their <https://github.com/ipfs/helia/wiki/Projects-using-Helia> I was reminded of https://github.com/orbitdb/orbitdb#readme which seems like it may be much less rolling your own parts