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Today, only a few companies are responsible for serving up most of the web. We have Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Fastly to name a few. These companies combined serve us our ads, web pages, social media, videos, images, and allow us to host servers and services on their infrastructures. To interact with these services, we also have to use their APIs. We send some data to their servers, and wait for a response. We then process that response and do whatever magic we need to do to create our apps and websites.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.ipfs.tech/ipfs-breaking-free-client-server/