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Re:Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla by miohtama on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:25PM (#25866667)
Is there any reason IPFS wizards could not implement IPFS or equivalents over WebRTC peer-to-peer, as in-page JavaScript application? Even if this were not the real thing, it would bring it closer to the mainstream more quickly.
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Re:Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla by toomim on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:44PM (#25866793)
It's technically feasible. IPFS not so different from Bittorrent, and Bittorrent can run over WebRTC: https://webtorrent.io/

In fact, webtorrent happens to be my favorite bittorrent client.

In general, I wish that more decentralized web tech didn't go about creating incompatible protocols. (Context: I'm working on Braid (https://braid.news) which is adding decentralized tech into today's WWW.)

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Re:Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla by j-james on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:13PM (#25867415)
It's so technically feasible that it already exists. Admittedly still in alpha, but rather feature-complete. There's even a nice demo built into the landing page.

https://js.ipfs.io/

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