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IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by knowaveragejoe »

CommanderData wrote: post #13
devttyeu wrote: post #4

Sad to see it go having been a maintainer some years ago. For anyone wondering, there are more sustainable (with a viable, focused business backing the project) options to do p2p, namely Iroh - https://www.iroh.computer/ which was built by ex-IPFS ex-Protocol Labs devs (I have no relation to the team beyond having worked with them back in the day). Sadly Protocol Labs is doing.. ehh whatever now, except apparently su…

I love Iroh but it doesn't quite work the same as IPFS if I understand correctly.

It doesn't, it's a lower level primitive. But things like IPFS can be built on top of it.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by chriswarbo »

stackghost wrote: post #16
rhodey wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think something like IPFS is definitely needed. There is nothing stopping you from distributing a webapp on bittorrent but you'll also need to add a README for instructions on how to run the webapp on localhost so a browser can render it. So thats not something that any non-technical user wants to do.

Content-addressable storage as a whole is a non-starter with non-technical users.

I don't understand. Billions of non-technical users are loading URLs like `https://cdn.foo/?guid=deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef` all the time. Why would they care if those URLs became `ipfs://deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef` instead?

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by rvz »

Another shut down post which many of its users did not support the maintainers.

You are going to see a lot more shutdown posts around decentralized or federated technologies if you do not support those tools.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by dgellow »

devttyeu wrote: post #4

Sad to see it go having been a maintainer some years ago. For anyone wondering, there are more sustainable (with a viable, focused business backing the project) options to do p2p, namely Iroh - https://www.iroh.computer/ which was built by ex-IPFS ex-Protocol Labs devs (I have no relation to the team beyond having worked with them back in the day). Sadly Protocol Labs is doing.. ehh whatever now, except apparently su…

What is PL doing nowadays? I checked the website and don’t understand at all

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by yieldcrv »

timcobb wrote: post #8
Macha wrote: post #2

All those NFT holders where the NFT resolved to a ipfs.io link in shambles

Hahaha thanks for this. It's ok, the asset is the block chain entry duh

all the NFTs I launched actually were fully onchain SVGs and CSS

tried to be the change I wanted to see

given where the concept actually found staying power (liquidity pools, instead of collectibles) it wholly needs a new name

“NFT” is distracting at this point, they should just called them 721-structs so people don’t get distracted by the fumbled poorly implemented art use case

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by neoncontrails »

Macha wrote: post #2

All those NFT holders where the NFT resolved to a ipfs.io link in shambles

I know you jest, but both the IPFS contributors I knew in college graduated to become web3 degens working on decentralized file storage projects. Specifically Walrus, which grew out of Meta's Libra project.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by devttyeu »

dgellow wrote: post #24
devttyeu wrote: post #4

Sad to see it go having been a maintainer some years ago. For anyone wondering, there are more sustainable (with a viable, focused business backing the project) options to do p2p, namely Iroh - https://www.iroh.computer/ which was built by ex-IPFS ex-Protocol Labs devs (I have no relation to the team beyond having worked with them back in the day). Sadly Protocol Labs is doing.. ehh whatever now, except apparently su…

What is PL doing nowadays? I checked the website and don’t understand at all

"The next big thing" usually

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by chriswarbo »

ruined wrote: post #3

has protocol labs itself made any kind of announcement? i don't see anything on the blog

Just checked protocol labs site and... holy shit:

> Protocol Labs is an innovation network driving breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward. PL connects more than 750 tech startups, funds, accelerators, foundations, open source projects, service providers, and other organizations.

What happened to them? Seems like they drank their own "Web3" Fla-Vor-Aid.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by dgellow »

runarberg wrote: post #17
mikert89 wrote: post #12

Does IPFS actually have users? I remeber when they raised 270 million and a bunch of people there got wildly wealthy

Wait are you telling me yet another supposedly ground breaking technology turned out to be yet another grift. I know a lot of people on HN are going to call me overly cynical. But this pattern should be so obvious by now. Any cynicism to any new ground breaking technology which is gonna solve a problem that exists because of capitalism, that this cynicism is more than warranted. At this point we should all be cynical…

Yeah, I now understand why gray beards are seen as grumpy. Mine isn’t gray yet, but after the 2010s and half of 2020s I can only see as very suspicious any new technology pushed hard by the industry
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