alt Hacker NewsDoes IPFS actually have users? I remeber when they raised 270 million and a bunch of people there got wildly wealthy
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I run a company currently serving ~1.7B requests per day (~20k/s) to ipfs gateways, so presumably still some. Very likely a big chunk of that is bots scraping stuff.
The only place where I regularly stumble upon on it was/is on libgen.
I guess IPFS is an artifact from the crypto craze. It's pretty silly if you think of it. However, I must admit, I got my first ever developer grant from Filecoin while they were flush with ZIRP era money.
btw,I thought it was an Initial Coin Offering, not an actual fundraise.
Most of the generative art is hosted on IPFS.
Wait are you telling me yet another supposedly ground breaking technology turned out to be yet another grift.
I know a lot of people on HN are going to call me overly cynical. But this pattern should be so obvious by now. Any cynicism to any new ground breaking technology which is gonna solve a problem that exists because of capitalism, that this cynicism is more than warranted.
At this point we should all be cynical of any new technology.
You can see public network metrics here: https://probelab.io/ipfs/
About 800k unique DHT clients are seen weekly.