[fiatjaf]

I once fell for this talk about "content-addressing".

You know what? Saying stuff is addressed by their content doesn't change the fact that the internet is "location-addressed" and you still have to know where peers that have the data you want are and connect to them.

And what is the solution for that? A DHT!

Turns out DHTs have terrible incentive structure and don't seem to be working well.

Downloading content on IPFS is the _most slow experience ever_ and for some reason I don't understand downloading is even slower. Even if you are in the same LAN of another machine that has the content you need it will still take hours to download some small file you would do in seconds with `scp`.

Now even if you know which peer has the content you want and tell IPFS to connect to it directly and the connection is established and the is being (slowly) downloaded... IPFS will drop the connection and the download will stop.