IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol that aims to supplement, or possibly even replace, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that rules the web now. Here’s the problem with HTTP: When you go to a website today, your browser has to be directly connected to the computers that are serving that website, even if their servers are far away and the transfer process eats up a lot of bandwidth.
From Why The Internet Needs IPFS Before It’s Too Late | TechCrunch
And IPFS stands for…
Interplanetary File System. This thing is just an alpha technology, isn’t packaged in any Linux distribution yet which means the servers that are out there don’t have it, but at least the article author isn’t also a project contributor. Further study is required.