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IPFS

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IPFS is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. It combines ideas from Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the web. It is like a single bittorrent swarm, exchanging git objects. IPFS provides an interface as simple as the HTTP web, but with permanence built in.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Self-Hosted
  • Firefox
4.6 / 5 Avg rating (5)
166 likes
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Features

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  1.  Distributed
  2.  Peer-To-Peer
  3.  Decentralized
  4.  Based on Blockchain
  5.  Browser extension
  6.  Double Donut Chart
  7.  Virtual filesystem

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    kapsul added IPFS as alternative to Kapsul.ai
    about 1 month ago
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    K0RR added IPFS as alternative to UploadNow.io
    3 months ago
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    K0RR added IPFS as alternative to MixDrop
    3 months ago
  • JimLegal, K0RR and salliewithaneyeeee liked IPFS
    5 months ago
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    RemovedUser added IPFS as alternative to Go I2P
    7 months ago
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IPFS information

  • Developed by

    Protocol Labs
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.6
  • Alternatives

    74 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about IPFS, and it has gotten 166 likes

IPFS was added to AlternativeTo by anarcat on Mar 9, 2015 and this page was last updated Feb 17, 2023.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Seth
  
Top positive commentFeb 8, 2018

It's how the web should have been built, decentralized and thus not dependent on a client-server model, with each file having its own unique address so it can survive and be easily located or archived even if the original web site is lone gone.

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lionking420

Just for the record, decentralized systems ARE client-server models too. Just because the servers are distributed and work in parallel, you still use a client to connect to a system of "nodes" which is a hip new word for server. Also, not sure what you are saying "easily located if website is gone" do you mean for instance, if the hashed-link from ipfs was linked in a website, that it would remain clickable when the website went offline? Cause the same could be said for a download link in any general-purpose cloud host like a dropbox link for example. If for instance, the entire chain of nodes holding the data were to go down, your file would not be downloadable. Which is equally as likely as a cloud provider going down.

Reply written Apr 26, 2022

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Samenaga
  
Positive comment
Pending approval • Edited Feb 18, 2023

IPFS brings permanence, highly redundant availability and resiliance against disasters or disconnections of parts of networks. BTW This is not an anonimizing network as this page suggest for now.

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Veselin Penev
  
Positive commentMay 11, 2020

That is a great project!

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What is IPFS?

IPFS is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. It combines ideas from Git, BitTorrent, Kademlia, SFS, and the web. It is like a single bittorrent swarm, exchanging git objects. IPFS provides an interface as simple as the HTTP web, but with permanence built in. You can also mount the world at /ipfs. IPFS could become a new major subsystem of the internet. If built right, it could complement or replace HTTP. It offers two approaches: content-addressing (ipfs://) and uploader-addressing (ipns://) allowing for mutable sites.

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