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I am sure this is not the objective here, but this article was so badly written and inaccurate that it made me lose respect for the IPFS project. There are a l

I am sure this is not the objective here, but this article was so badly written and inaccurate that it made me lose respect for the IPFS project. There are a lot of technical assertions that aren't just wrong, they're absurdly false, within this article.

animanoir 5y ago
Which parts exactly?
- tristor 5y ago
  Almost every word in this section for starters: https://blog.ipfs.io/decentralizing-the-internet-s-root/#an-internet-of-numbers https://blog.ipfs.io/decentralizing-the-internet-s-root/#an-... Did you read the article?
- tribler 5y ago
  > Imagine if all Twitter users had 'verified' status and you could also find them across their other social apps without any risk of following fake or wrong accounts by mistake. Without any risks? Ideas from self-sovereign identity are somewhat included in this promo. Does this service include hiring notaries to check state-issued IDs to verify identities? Risk-free IDs are unsolved I believe.
  - southerntofu 5y ago
    > Does this service include hiring notaries to check state-issued IDs to verify identities? How would that be without risks? Corruption concerns aside, Nation-States are likely among the biggest identity fakers for their intelligence services. I think "without risk" meant that discovery of alternative accounts/URLs is signed with a public key you already know of, so impersonation risks are reduced. I don't care to know "who" this is, as long as i know it's the same person.
TeMPOraL 5y ago
I was just about to submit an equivalent comment, so I'll piggyback on yours. I feel just like you, plus, I also hate to see them promoting another crypto scam attempt at taking over a piece of global infrastructure to make a quick buck. I like IPFS as protocol. I didn't mind their work on Filecoin, as it made sense in context. But every time I check, they seem to be getting more and more in bed with dubious cryptocurrency initiatives. At this point I'm no longer willing to advocate for IPFS itself.
- tristor 5y ago
  It's very disappointing, because I think the IPFS protocol has legs, but unfortunately they're promoting what I believe amounts to crypto grift here, and they're not even doing a good job at that promotion. There might even be a viable use case for an alternative root on blockchain, but this implementation with pre-mined associated coins and uncapped pricing is not it.

animanoir 5y ago

Which parts exactly?

tristor 5y ago
Almost every word in this section for starters: https://blog.ipfs.io/decentralizing-the-internet-s-root/#an-internet-of-numbers https://blog.ipfs.io/decentralizing-the-internet-s-root/#an-... Did you read the article?
tribler 5y ago
> Imagine if all Twitter users had 'verified' status and you could also find them across their other social apps without any risk of following fake or wrong accounts by mistake. Without any risks? Ideas from self-sovereign identity are somewhat included in this promo. Does this service include hiring notaries to check state-issued IDs to verify identities? Risk-free IDs are unsolved I believe.
- southerntofu 5y ago
  > Does this service include hiring notaries to check state-issued IDs to verify identities? How would that be without risks? Corruption concerns aside, Nation-States are likely among the biggest identity fakers for their intelligence services. I think "without risk" meant that discovery of alternative accounts/URLs is signed with a public key you already know of, so impersonation risks are reduced. I don't care to know "who" this is, as long as i know it's the same person.

TeMPOraL 5y ago

I was just about to submit an equivalent comment, so I'll piggyback on yours. I feel just like you, plus, I also hate to see them promoting another crypto scam attempt at taking over a piece of global infrastructure to make a quick buck. I like IPFS as protocol. I didn't mind their work on Filecoin, as it made sense in context. But every time I check, they seem to be getting more and more in bed with dubious cryptocurrency initiatives. At this point I'm no longer willing to advocate for IPFS itself.

tristor 5y ago
It's very disappointing, because I think the IPFS protocol has legs, but unfortunately they're promoting what I believe amounts to crypto grift here, and they're not even doing a good job at that promotion. There might even be a viable use case for an alternative root on blockchain, but this implementation with pre-mined associated coins and uncapped pricing is not it.