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by 2color 1267 days ago
I think that this is a misunderstanding but I understand where this is coming from.

Let me share my 2 cents as the Developer Advocate for IPFS (employed by PL).

You claim that our work is largely ineffective but what are you referring to? The IPFS ecosystem is like a cluster of several ecosystems, e.g. Libp2p, IPLD, IPFS, Multiformats.

> Lots of code and specs but nothing really usable

Some of the libraries may not be as actively maintained as others — this is the nature of open source. But to claim nothing is usable is not accurate — there's a lot of stuff that works pretty reliably.

> Code is not very original

Who cares....

> autonat is their version of stun/ice.

It's actually Autonat, DCUtR, and Circuit Relay V2 which are pretty amazing given that it's like STUN/ICE but decentralized! Anyone in the network might help you hole punch through NAT and from network measurements the success rates average around 70% (https://youtu.be/bzL7Y1wYth8?t=1091). Saying it's just "their version of STUN/ICE) takes away from the main qualitative difference of doing it without centralized coordination servers.

> "what apps use libp2p" you won't find anything because nobody uses it.

Ethereum uses libp2p GossipSub since the beacon chain launched. Berty, Satellite (https://satellite.im/), Status (https://discuss.status.im/t/waku-version-2-pitch/1776#org900...).

Either way, I appreciate your comment, we need to be doing a better job of surfacing some of the great progress being made in the IPFS/Libp2p ecosystem.