With webtorrent you need to keep a tab open seeding the file?
AFAIK — yes, until WebRTC Data Channel is supported in SharedWorkers. The issue was discussed at least three years ago, and I believe there will be some progress soon.
Cool. What makes Webtorrent superior to ipfs? In your opinion
WebTerront is basically a BitTorrent — a battle-tested protocol with almost two decades of history. IPFS is mostly an overhyped proof of concept.
More to that, IPFS will most likely be tied to Filecoin — a monetization layer that is foreign to Bitcoin (cash). With BitTorrent we can have monetization over our own layer.
There can be special archival nodes on desktop systems that seed files to webpeers, we have the basis to start now.
Once WebRTC is improved and new version is deployed, such “media layer” can be drastically improved. That will take some time though.
