Re:Brave Deprecates IPFS Support
by zcw100 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @01:43PM
(#41382072)
IPFS is an interesting idea but there are a number of limitations that keep it from taking off. It’s also a bit of a timesink because the initial idea is good and it sucks you in and only later do you see the problems.
Re:Brave Deprecates IPFS Support
by twoodfin on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @02:22PM
(#41382557)
My #1 frustration with the evolution of technology over the past quarter century:
I’m nearly certain that there was a window—say around 2009—after IE’s domination had disintegrated through Microsoft’s legal woes & complacency, but before the web’s reorientation to mobile and Chrome-first monoculture, when it would have been possible for a real set of standards and infrastructure for world-wide distributed hash tables and catalogs thereof to emerge and take hold.
But that window closed, probably because the most attractive consumer use case was piracy, and no big players wanted to dive into that morass.
Re:Brave Deprecates IPFS Support
by Sakos on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @01:30PM
(#41381891)
It requires a local application and an extension, I think. I found the documentation to be confusing as somebody not familiar with IPFS and eventually gave up on it because I couldn't figure out what the right settings were for me or what the options meant privacy-wise. I also wasn't willing to sink a lot of time or effort into it, because I have enough on my plate generally and I wasn't sure what the benefits were for me.
https://macwright.com/2017/08/09/decentralize-ipfs
IPFS, Again (2019)
https://macwright.com/2019/06/08/ipfs-again
How IPFS is broken (2020)
https://fiatjaf.com/d5031e5b.html
Why I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server
https://neimanslab.org/2024-01-31/why-i-moved-my-blog-ipfs-t...
These articles have HN submissions too, also see this relatively recent thread: Is IPFS working these days?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37750529
I’m nearly certain that there was a window—say around 2009—after IE’s domination had disintegrated through Microsoft’s legal woes & complacency, but before the web’s reorientation to mobile and Chrome-first monoculture, when it would have been possible for a real set of standards and infrastructure for world-wide distributed hash tables and catalogs thereof to emerge and take hold.
But that window closed, probably because the most attractive consumer use case was piracy, and no big players wanted to dive into that morass.
Oh well.