I worry that this is another example of throwing technology at a social and political problem.
That the current web is centralized has little to do with its technical design, and everything to do with economic and structural incentives that have made it that way.
It's tempting to say "start afresh", but we'll just be trading our current problems for a new set of problems IPFS introduces. It's a law of nature that problems are always conserved.
I would rather we do the hard work of fixing the web we've got, in particular the hard issue of how to re-decentralize it.
That the current web is centralized has little to do with its technical design, and everything to do with economic and structural incentives that have made it that way.
It's tempting to say "start afresh", but we'll just be trading our current problems for a new set of problems IPFS introduces. It's a law of nature that problems are always conserved.
I would rather we do the hard work of fixing the web we've got, in particular the hard issue of how to re-decentralize it.