(Disclaimer: 30 years ago, I got on the Internet as a junior operator. My first task, after setting up email for myself, was to build the company's new USENET

(Disclaimer: 30 years ago, I got on the Internet as a junior operator. My first task, after setting up email for myself, was to build the company's new USENET feed. This was the start of a very fast, loud, bumpy rocket ride... and now here I am, a grumpy old man, wishing we still had USENET... /disclaimer) All we need, is for the OS distribution vendors to include a way to mount a global, public filesystem - without involving any third party beyond a DNS request. Imagine if Linux and MacOS users could point their machines, immediately upon install, to a global filesystem - and start publishing to it themselves, directly from their own machine - without involving third parties, or servers, or whatever. Alas, the OS guys won't do this, because they've decided to make money from ads and tracking peoples habits, so have stopped being decent OS vendors, these days. But I keep thinking to myself, surely some kid is out there gluing IPFS and Debian together in a way that just makes sense. It really does make sense. I guess, it'll happen soon enough. And when it does, so many big fish are going to find themselves hungry. (Perhaps thats also why it hasn't been done yet.)