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by fernly 2770 days ago
"Distributed Web" -- Wikipedia fails me, but some clarity emerges from

https://ipfs.io/

"IPFS aims to replace HTTP and build a better web for all of us."

https://medium.com/textileio/enabling-the-distributed-web-ab...

"the basic idea is we identify content by its cryptographic hash... I can simply ask the IPFS network for the file with that exact CID, the network will find the peers that have the data (using a DHT), retrieve it, and verify (using the CID) that it’s the correct file."

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Could this possibly make search engine monopolies impossible?