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Wow, thank you! Very interesting! Quite odd that none of my follows mentioned this going live, must be an issue of too many github issues.

Time to dig into this a bit!

edit: For anyone else perplexed and surprised by me, seems `floodsub` is their moniker for the new tech, and it was (in part) merged in here: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/pull/3202

This is really, really cool! Also, if this implementation is robust and performant, this is huge for IPFS.

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Yes we haven't been very vocal about it yet because it's not yet part of a go-ipfs release -- it'll be in the next release, go-ipfs v0.4.5.

Note on the name: floodsub is one specific implementation of pubsub. There are many ways to do pubsub, and we chose to go with a naive and simple flooding implementation for now. In the future there will be more, and you'll be able to use different implementations simultaneously.

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