[karissa]

This kinda makes me sick to my stomach -- essentially, she's saying that a peer-to-peer internet is great because companies will be able to have better uptime.

She doesn't even cover the clearly obvious economic aspects of this -- why would I run an IPFS node if it just benefits the company and not me?

[_prometheus]

(IPFS dev here) I think she does, but perhaps the discrepancy may be that she's got a different target audience: the established website owners? Also to be fair, there's not much space in these sorts of articles LOTS gets cut by editors and -- from having done something like this -- you have to hit this absuuuurdly high level and can't sink into details much at all. I'm actually pretty surprised at the level of technical detail in this article -- i would've expected much more to not make it past the "remove jargon - write for the average user" media filter. I've done some interviews / articles that ended up annoyingly waaaaay more high level and completely missed my expected mark. You might want to write to the author, too. :)

[esfandia]

The OP asks an interesting question though: why would I run an IPFS node if it just benefits the company and not me?

[reitanqild]

Maybe you won't.

IIRC local machines by default only caches stuff for a very short time which makes sense for personal computers.

On company networks however I'd expect sysadmins to run nodes to reduce upstream bandwidth usage.

Edit: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10329262 the specific example is the exact opposite but I see no technical reason why you cannot do this the other way around.

[david_ar]

There will be incentives in the future, both in terms of promoting a good seeding/leeching ratio like bittorrent ("bitswap"), as well as http://filecoin.io/

[hexscrews]

And how would you deal with materials that could get you either dead or imprisioned? Can you elect not to host content? For example, in china, you have a situation where you can be materially affected by political content. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2015/10/in-china-... Or what if you happen to live in a country hostile to LGBT content, like russia or Zimbabwe, where it may be dangerous to host such content?

[clacke2]

That is exactly what ipfs does, in contrast to e.g. freenet. Mirroring is opt-in.

[DrRobinson]

Because you might like that company/organization/website. As the IPFS dev said in other replys in this thread, you can choose which sites you want to help

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

"This kinda makes me sick to my stomach"

Perhaps this is a sign you've over-internalized things.