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docs: drop reference to the rejected seed-hosted-server design attempt

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@ -15,11 +15,8 @@ separates a small, mutable pointer file (which Radicle replicates exactly as it
other git object) from immutable large-file content addressed by hash — which is precisely
what IPFS is good at. This fork only uses IPFS for that second part.
A seed-hosted HTTP LFS server was considered and prototyped first, but rejected: it would have
recreated a single point of failure, and Radicle's node/address book has no existing mechanism
to advertise a seed's HTTP endpoint (only P2P gossip addresses), so real seed discovery would
have needed new protocol work outside this fork's scope. Instead, every peer uses their own
local IPFS node, and the file-CID mapping travels with the repository itself.
There's no server anywhere in this design: every peer uses their own local IPFS node, and the
file-CID mapping travels with the repository itself, avoiding a single point of failure.
## How it works