[Gigachad]

It's been 6 years now and IPFS is still stuck with the same problems it had at the start with no real pathway to being useful. Most technology does something useful early on. I don't know the timeline for the web but I don't imagine it involved 6 years of marketing and selling to investors while not serving any purpose well.

[garrickvanburen]

HTTP was invented in 1989.

Netscape was founded in 1994.

So, if you’re comfortable with either of those a starting point, 6 years is somewhere in the dot com boom.

[SwimSwimHungry]

I'd argue the WWW was instantly useful, even during its halcyon days.

IPFS on the other hand is a horrible "jack of all trades" that has mediocre performance even in the best of times, and it hasn't really gotten any better since it first launched 6 years ago.

And that's not even bringing up the cryptocurrency cohort souring the project with its stench.

I don't object to the existence of IPFS, rather I prefer more efficient and focused projects instead. Someone in the comment threads mentioned Solid, which sounds like a decent decentralized information protocol or system of sorts.

And for those that want censorship resistance... who can forget Freenet? That project has been around since 2000 and seems to do a pretty bang up job, even if the performance is not much better.