IPLD and IPFS aren't the same thing. In fact the deployed IPFS doesn't use IPLD. Think of IPLD as akin to protocol buffers or GraphQL Schema or JSON schema or J

IPLD and IPFS aren't the same thing. In fact the deployed IPFS doesn't use IPLD. Think of IPLD as akin to protocol buffers or GraphQL Schema or JSON schema or JSON-LD. It deals with encoding and representing pointers/links, not networking.