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Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry if this is a dumb question but what does IPFS do that torrents can't do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Torrents identify groups of files, and different torrents with the same files will have different hashes and clients will download them from different peers, split across different trackers. IPFS identifies unique files, and all copies of the same files are available to all clients.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks. That makes sense. I wonder why torrents couldn't be somehow adapted for this use case though. They're way more widespread than IPFS.