takinbrrrr on Nostr: Naturally. The issue with Bittorrent (and why I didn’t suggest using it) is that it ...
Naturally. The issue with Bittorrent (and why I didn’t suggest using it) is that it requires more tooling for it to work. Although both (Bittorrent and IPFS) use DHTs for locating content, IPFS (in my experience) is faster in locating content. You would need a tracker to be able to do so with Bittorrent. There’s also the need to have a HTTP interface for accessing media files. This comes bundled with the IPFS daemon. In general, IPFS is probably better for storing and serving many small files and Bittorrent for larger files.
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