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> Wouldn't all those examples also work just as easily with torrents/magnet-links? My (possibly wrong) feeling is that IPFS is meant for smaller files, and tor
by sseagull 3y ago
> Wouldn't all those examples also work just as easily with torrents/magnet-links?
My (possibly wrong) feeling is that IPFS is meant for smaller files, and torrents for bigger collections. So with the example of a package manager, you could download each individual package via IPFS, whereas a torrent would make sense if you wanted to download an archive of them all.
Not to say torrents couldn't work, but it just kinda feels like not the intended use case.
(The above feeling come from reading about IPFS a few times throughout the years and toying with it for a while).