Readme: Rewrite introduction and featureset (#9211)
* Readme: Rewrite introduction and featureset * Readd links Co-authored-by: Gus Eggert <gus@gus.dev>
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-# kubo
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-> the oldest IPFS implementation, previously known as "go-ipfs"
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## What is Kubo?
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-Kubo (go-ipfs) the earliest and most widely used implementation of IPFS.
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+Kubo was the first is the most widely used IPFS implementation today. Implementing the *Interplanetary Filesystem* - the Web3 standard and contender to replace https. Thus powered by IPLD's data models and the libp2p for network communication. Kubo is written in Go.
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+Featureset
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+- Runs an IPFS-Node as a network service
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+- [Command Line Interface](https://docs.ipfs.tech/reference/kubo/cli/) to IPFS-Nodes
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+- Local [Web2-to-Web3 HTTP Gateway functionality](https://github.com/ipfs/specs/tree/main/http-gateways#readme)
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+- HTTP RPC API (`/api/v0`) to access and control the daemon
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+- IPFS's internal Webgui can be used to manage the Kubo nodes
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-It includes:
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-- an IPFS daemon server
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-- extensive [command line tooling](https://docs.ipfs.tech/reference/kubo/cli/)
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-- an [HTTP Gateway](https://docs.ipfs.tech/reference/http/gateway/) (`/ipfs/`, `/ipns/`) for serving content to HTTP browsers
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-- an [HTTP RPC API](https://docs.ipfs.tech/reference/kubo/rpc/) (`/api/v0`) for controlling the daemon node
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+### Other implementations
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-Note: [other implementations exist](https://docs.ipfs.tech/basics/ipfs-implementations/).
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+See [List](https://docs.ipfs.tech/basics/ipfs-implementations/)
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## What is IPFS?
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