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Maybe a content-addressable P2P web where everyone has their own cache would be better as a way of distributing packages. It would spare a lot of bandwidth cost
by TazeTSchnitzel 6y ago
Maybe a content-addressable P2P web where everyone has their own cache would be better as a way of distributing packages. It would spare a lot of bandwidth costs for the hosts and maybe make us less dependant on big corporate benefactors.
- eins1234 6y agoDefinitely one use case for IPFS I'm personally super excited about. One objection that I'm sure will come up is "what if people stop hosting a package you depend on": That's where dedicated package hosting services (like npm) can come in and provide a reliable source of these packages that's fast and always available (potentially for a price). The benefit over the status quo is those services will be commoditized, so they have to compete purely on price/reliability, since as a user you don't have to care where the packages come from in a content-addressed system.