| You can publish static content that doesn't go down when the server goes down and scales on its own as the content becomes more popular. It also has hashing built-in, so you can be sure the content you got is what you wanted, Things like distribution of apt packages becomes much more exciting when each computer can choose to redistribute the packages it got to others in the LAN or area, even offline. It's also very interesting to me how all the visitors to your website become servers as well, so content can never be "hugged to death" or links can never go stale, as long as at least one person has the content somewhere on their node. That, to me, is huge, as links now go stale with some regularity. Think of all the Geocities sites (and all versions of them) just existing for ever, regardless if Geocities decided to shut down. For example, here's my site on IPFS: https://ipfs.eternum.io/ipfs/QmVW6JejQkjLnBJacR8qcZi88WNTMwi... That can now "never" be lost, as long as someone cares enough about it to visit. |
What new thing does ipfs make possible that would make users install the software to use it?