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This is weird: https://protocol.ai/blog/

It looks like Protocol Labs has basically abandoned IPFS and all the promises of an unbeatable p2p network for file immutable sharing from 10 years ago (finally) and has pivoted completely into what seems to be a bunch of AI-related startups using their shitcoin money?

fiatjaf 1y ago

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-public-ipfs-gateways-and-supporting-interplanetary-shipyard

And it looks like they have stopped developing IPFS and stuff so now the orphan IPFS developers have migrated to a new organization and Cloudflare is making a blog post that fakes as supportive but is actually stating that it will stop hosting the biggest IPFS gateway in operation and will just redirect traffic to some other gateways?

It's not very clear what is going on, but I guess finally the big corp(s) has decided to stop spending money on a sunking broken technology but is not honest enough to admit it so they will let the thing die very slowly over the next years instead of just killing it outright -- I guess the developers and other companies and some users are still way too involved and their cognitive dissonance wouldn't allow that to happen anyway.

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fiatjaf 1y ago

Eventually this will happen to Farcaster and Bluesky too I imagine.

Phi 1y ago

agree

deeznuts 1y ago

Shitcoiners!

Râu Cao ⚡ 1y ago

Regarding Cloudflare not wanting to run a gateway anymore, I can add a fun fact from our running a public gateway in the past:

At some point, we were wondering why our nodes were serving so many requests and creating so much traffic and resource usage. It turned out that the developers of some Chinese movie streaming sites had figured out that they could just use public IPFS gateways as a content distribution network. So whatever new gateways they found, they just added to a list loaded up by the streaming clients to try and load movies from. It looked like a DDoS attack to us, because it basically was. And the only way to stop it was to stop serving anything but our own content. You could call it a tragedy of the p2p commons I guess.

fiatjaf 1y ago

Yes, indeed. It seems quite obvious that this would inevitably happen now that you said it.

Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire 1y ago

Ah I see