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Re:IPFS Support in Brave by realdense on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:29PM (#25841019)
Some of us believe that the client-server model has led us to the current situation, ruled by internet giants. A future where people are less reliant on giants is within our reach, the biggest hurdle is making it available to the masses.

Hopefully uptake by non-mainstream browsers like Brave will increase the exposure, attract developers, increase the network and get us closer to having IPFS, Hypercore or some other protocol available to the mainstream, whether that be in Firefox or by some other means.

Besides, you could argue that browsers have added plenty of fad technologies over the past few years, DRM comes to mind.

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Re:IPFS Support in Brave by jabedude on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:12PM (#25841345)
> IPFS, Hypercore or some other protocol available to the mainstream, whether that be in Firefox or by some other means

TIL about hypercore! Looks like an interesting concept based on append-only logs. It reminds me of this work being done at VMware: https://github.com/vmware/node-replication

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Re:IPFS Support in Brave by babypuncher on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:02PM (#25849630)
The biggest hurdle is convincing the masses that your way is better than the current way.

I don't think that is ever going to happen.

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