Saturday, October 17th, 2026, 6:04 am
6 Years Since IPFS
Filed under: I wonder what RMS thinks of it
ix years ago, in October 2020, I worked on making a text-only (bulletin) version of Techrights. The sister site would have the same thing 3 years later.
In the same month I experimented with putting these bulletins in IPFS, then I looked into more protocols (like Gemini Protocol, which I had already explored before but did not adopt).
So there’s a sort of anniversary in late October. It coincided with the COVID-19 stay-home directives.
Free software (like IPFS) has since then stagnated somewhat. Like blockchains, we barely hear about it anymore.
It still exists, but how many people use it?
I don’t think RMS knows much (or anything) about IPFS. He’s not a fan of fake-coins, so he would probably find IPFS off-putting.
