pretty much the title.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Basically everything from https://www.protocol.ai/work, bar the blockchain stuff which i can only assume they’re doing to milk investors to fund the actually good projects.

    libp2p abstracts away networking so you can simply point to a peer ID and the computer figures out how to connect to it (though you can of course specify how to connect if you wish), and it preserves connections across different networks among other stuff.

    IPFS is basically just torrent but better in every way, foremost in that you can just slap some data onto an IPFS node and if anyone else happens to be serving the same data then you’ll both automatically be valid providers, despite never having talked to each other in any way. No more needing to search out a magnet link, just seed whatever data you want and anyone requesting the data from the network will automatically find you.