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Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by networksrus »

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

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Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by smalltorch »

jadbox wrote: post #49
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…

who uses Iroh?

isn't it brand new?

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by ycombinatrix »

jadbox wrote: post #49
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…

who uses Iroh?

developers, not end users

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by frollogaston »

Macha wrote: post #47
frollogaston wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just use the IPFS hash?

This sounds like a smart idea. That's probably why the NFT hype train didn't do it.

Looks like at least some of the valuable ones did though. The json payload is on ipfs, then the image url is ipfs://. Example: https://bafybeihpjhkeuiq3k6nqa3fkgeigeri7iebtrsuyuey5y6vy36n... (they stored an ipfs hash only, this link is just a random viewer pointed at it)

Btw it's weirdly annoying to get the json payload for one of these

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by [deleted] »

chriswarbo wrote: post #22
stackghost wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

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Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by simonw »

jMyles wrote: post #33
yieldcrv wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yeah, when we do NFT ticketing these days, we just say, "have your 1155 ready" with a link to explain what that means. I still think it's pretty obvious that on sufficiently long time-scales that some variant of NFTs will be the winner for event tickets.

What advantage does blockchain ticketing hold over a centralized database of tickets?

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by grebc »

api wrote: post #37
Macha wrote: post #2

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

Finding out NFTs were just links, didn't even embed the asset, was such a moment for me... like either the people pushing this are complete fools or 100% conscious grifters who know it's total bullshit. I suspect it was a mix. Insane. I think a lot of the AI skepticism comes from the fact that the last major New Thing (tm) pushed by this industry was crypto. People are very, very burned by that. That and how badly so…

Crypto / AI, it’s the same people. Same grift for other people’s money in the form of equity.

Re: IPFS Maintainers Winding Down

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Post by scirob »

rhodey wrote: post #5

This is really unfortunate. When cloudflare dropped IPFS you could say this next step was sort of already on the way. I may be biased but I think when IPFS decided to put so much time into "IPNS" in order to support non-static webapps years ago what they came up with did not fit the need. And without webapps on IPFS things were going nowhere. A year or so ago I wrote IPFS-boot which allows serving webapps on IPFS whi…

oh man and when Brave removed native IPFS support. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/37735
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