[0xCMP]

But it won't grow unless others can download IPFS software to continue hosting it and there is no reason to believe they could not simply block it internally as well to prevent spreading.

As said before, it needs to be used/useful to many normal people (like a previous example of GitHub) before there it requires too much political will to effectively block.

[Kubuxu]

You can download IPFS software via IPFS, and there is always sneakernet.

[johncolanduoni]

> As said before, it needs to be used/useful to many normal people

[lazaroclapp]

Installing software from a USB drive is within the reach of most normal teens and young adults in the developing world. So, sneakernet -> IPFS -> Wikipedia is a viable path so long as blocking the IPFS protocol, over all reasonable transports, is hard enough to do.

[Kubuxu]

Responding to 0xCPM (sibling comment). IPFS was not designed to hide the sources but thanks to versatility of transports (you can ever run it on cjdns or mesh network) and possibility of using it offline it is not easy to censor.

[0xCMP]

According to another comment on this thread: Unfortunately IPFS wasn't designed to hide and would be easy to block for a nation state.

[bigbugbag]

Are you arguing that providing a mirror of localized wikipedia is not useful to normal people ? Or am I missing your point ?

[johncolanduoni]

The person I was responding to was talking about people getting the IPFS software via IPFS or in person delivery of media. This is not a promising method for distributing anything to normal people, even if it later lets you view Wikipedia.