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		rer on Oct 24, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPFS is the Distributed Web Would it go away if there was less of it? Can you imagine ways there could be less of it?

inimino on Oct 24, 2016 [–]

If there was something dramatically better for every use case (which is not IPFS) it would slowly displace HTTP in new deployments and there would still be HTTP for a very, very long time. The Web we have, in other words, isn't going anywhere.

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