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by stavros 953 days ago
Not exactly, IPFS doesn't tell you what to download (you select what to download) and thus can't push the rarest material to you. There are many similarities, but this is much more suited to making large datasets more resilient/accessible.
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Did some rabbit hole spelunking on IPFS yesterday...

One could easily use IPFS as the storage layer and add $magic_sauce to manage the distribution of the books within the sub-network kind of like git-annex does to manage people's porn collections. There's one project I saw that does this (using the IPFS-daemon's RPC API) to run a cluster of IPFS nodes for whatever reasons people would want to do something like this.