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Re:Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS by AgentME on Sunday May 10, 2020 @12:19AM (#23130246)
>Thus, distributed platforms today must allow people to pick and choose what content they wish to host.

IPFS works more like torrents than FreeNet. If you run an IPFS node, it only hosts content that you pinned on it yourself.

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Re:Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS by brokenmachine on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:05PM (#23138207)
IPFS also has none of the anonymity. So it's a tradeoff.
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