Has it? I have never seen anybody using IPFS in the wild, even projects for which it should be well suited (archive.org, Linux package distribution, Git, Lemmy, Imgur, CivitAI), don't use it. Worse yet, IPFS still provides no real way to deal with private or local data, which drastically limits its use.
I love the idea about data being addressable by hash, but I don't feel IPFS has actually delivered anything meaningful in that area yet.
And with ipfs-search.com shutdown, there is not even any way left to explore what is actually on the network now.
And technical issues aside, there is also the legal problem that IPFS conflicts with copyright. Redistributing anything is illegal by default, unless somebody gives you permission, IPFS provides no means to track that permission. You can't attach a GPL or an author to a hash.
I love the idea about data being addressable by hash, but I don't feel IPFS has actually delivered anything meaningful in that area yet.
And with ipfs-search.com shutdown, there is not even any way left to explore what is actually on the network now.
And technical issues aside, there is also the legal problem that IPFS conflicts with copyright. Redistributing anything is illegal by default, unless somebody gives you permission, IPFS provides no means to track that permission. You can't attach a GPL or an author to a hash.