[poletopole]

I think Textile and its underlying protocols are a step forward that's actually shipping. But it looks a little like an IPFS take on Firestore, but correct me if I'm wrong. But maybe that's because I've been working on too much theory with a distributed protocol of my own for too long rather than getting my hands dirty, ha. Perfect is the enemy of good.

[andrewxhill]

That wouldn't be bad if done right! I think there are still "Firebase of IPFS" products yet to come. What we do that is a bit different is that we allow devs to claim some hosted resources (IPFS, Threads, etc) and then grant access to those resources to their users. But what is different than most web2 is that the end-users can still own and keep their data (through encryption, pk identity, content addressed data).