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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by jkp56 on Sunday October 13, 2019 @02:49PM (#21242087)
And ipfs is really just a combo of the two concepts: files and folders wrapped into a git-like tree of hashes; and all that tree-hash-files-folders structure is being synced over a torrent-like protocol.
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Re:Computer Files Are Going Extinct by carapace on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:38PM (#21261294)
From my POV it's more like distributed content-addressable RAM with support for file/directory-structured blobs. You can build alternate abstractions over it.
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