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		Gigachad on Oct 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, ... I see this kind of claim posted a lot, but what does IPFS actually do that torrents do not? What is a new use case which has been enabled?

linuxandrew on Oct 18, 2021 [–]

In terms of the protocol IPNS, DNSLink and PubSub come to mind. You can publish things that change over time.

IPFS also does some deduplication against the data when you publish things.

In terms of the software, browser integration, which there isn't a whole lot around for BitTorrent AFAIK.

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