• @k_o_t
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    iirc ipfs libraries are decoupled from filecoin, you can use whatever implementation in whatever language, and never even know filecoin existed

    also, why do you think fc is a bad idea?

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      • @null_radix
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        Ipfs has always had a strongly layered philosophy. The team believes in modular software architects. They will never be coupled. Just look at their stack, heck they even made a protocol for self decribing hashes. Also libp2p is quite nice.

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            yeah the diffence is that layered protocols would be intrinsically difficult to inject coupling. Protocol labs help create protocols, but its out of their hands now. For example polkadot uses libp2p and also did most of the rust implementation. Also many Ethereum project use lib2p2 and IPFS (although eth use DEVp2p for it networking) If protocol labs wanted to add something to the protocol that was helped just filecoin that would go against libp2p’s largest consumers and they would just fork the protocol anyways. Protocol lab’s approach is to be as plurilistic as possible so they can get the largest mindshare of developers using and working on the protocols, then eventually the protocols becomes self sustaining through the projects that are built on them.

      • @k_o_t
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        22 years ago

        team with plans to couple it

        that’s conserning ngl, do you know of any source?

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          • @k_o_t
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            that’s just protocol labs offering their own hosting, there’s nothing preventing you from not using it, no?

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              • @k_o_t
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                they are offering it for free in order to incentivise more developers to adopt it, more people using it only means they need to pay more for hosting

                plus, the value of ipfs is largely dependent on its flexibility, locking everyone to use filecoin would probably be not only technically impossible (many libraries are maintained by people other than protocol labs), but also weird from their side, as there is a multitude of applications for ipfs other than redundant bulk storage

                obviously, there’s no way to know what’s going to happen, but in my opinion this is extremely unlikely: watching all the interviews with the people behind ipfs I get a strong feeling that these people are actually trying to do something good, and this is not simply a cash-grab operation

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                  • @k_o_t
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                    32 years ago

                    i don’t pretend to understand investing, but I think there’s no reason why people who bought filecoil would not be able to get a return on investment if the value of filecoin increases, after all, filecoin offers genuine utility and a very concrete service, and not some theoretical promise: trying to squeese some money out of it very fast would be a relatively small amount compared to what a potentially enormous data storage network be worth in the future

                    and in any case, do VCs who bought pre-sale tokens have any say in the way the company that develops it is run? they bought tokens, not company shares i think… like i literally don’t know, do they have any way to influence them?