I tried to query a lot of resources (NFT images, many of which are/were hosted on IPFS) from IPFS myself using the official Go server, running on some pretty fast/wide hardware, for a good part of 2021 and 2022. It was a dumpster fire. Here are two specific problems that I remember, though I ran into several more. First, the UDP storm that it created somehow broke my network, where all of my switches gave up and just started sending all of its traffic to all of the nodes on the network. That could have been a "me" thing but it really made it hard to trust. I ended up having to give that server its own VLAN. Second, the caching was brain dead. By default, it would write every resource to the cache even if I was just using it to download them to a local directory, so it wrote everything twice. Even worse, when the cache was full, it would just drop the whole cache, which created huge spikes in IO util. I ended up patching the app to remove caching.

It felt like a really cool demo that never got cleaned up to work as a real production product.

I always thought https://named-data.net in this are was pretty interesting

Wasn't the problem with IPFS always that it allowed random strangers to put data on your machine, which could make you an accessory in crime?

Has anyone looked at ar.io and have any opinions on it? They claim you are paying for 200 years upfront with a kind of endowment like setup.

IPFS never worked right for many years. Great concept, poor implementation. Someone will one day build something that incorporates these ideas.

The shit hit the fan once filecoin became intertwined with IPFS. So DOA long time ago.

One of the good things about AI could be people picking up or reviving unmaintained open-source projects more easily.

The question is why IPFS did not get the traction something like Tor had for decades?

I believe the fundamental problem of those protocols is everyone fear ending up serving child porn just by running a "node" and taking a chance at explaining the future P2P internet to a judge.

IPFS got a CID deny list [0] but it was too little too late

- [0] https://badbits.dwebops.pub/

Another shut down post which many of its users did not support the maintainers.

You are going to see a lot more shutdown posts around decentralized or federated technologies if you do not support those tools.