It's wild to see people who love the word "decentralized" also love it when an organization tries to centralize a something that's decentralized. It's really hard in these times to know if someone is trying to pump and dump for sure, or if they're being genuine.
I don't think that's a good description of what's happening here.
IPFS content accessible via Cloudflare's gateway isn't dependent on Cloudflare itself at all. They're just acting as another equal peer in the network (albeit a widespread & well-connected one). If Cloudflare disappears, the content remains.
It's exactly like a large organization providing extra seeds for a popular torrent - it doesn't take anything away from the rest of the network.
Won't this gateway make it less likely to have some sort of p2p app take off, because why help out peers at your expense when you can get what you want from Cloudflare at no expense? Or maybe I'm looking at IPFS wrong - I interpret it as something meant to become popular (meaning much more non-programmers would use it than programmers), but I suppose if it remains a small community like torrenting, then it could remain effectively decentralized despite Cloudflare's gateway, because of how many users are being peers instead of solely leaching
Things that are supposed to be able to become mainstream have to expect different users. They need to expect a ridiculously high amount of e.g. Cloudflare usage. Most people aren't developers. And things like Cloudflare's gateway make it harder to sell "use this app that uses your phone's storage space to store things you like", because those cost storage space while Cloudflare is free. Sure, the systems can still be decentralized de jur, but de facto they are centralized. Git remains decentralized de facto due to the high percentage of git users who clone things.
GitHub's codespaces definitely are super centralized, and if they became mainstream, then I'd argue that git is centralized de facto.
The response code has literally been sitting there all this time, waiting for an implementation of crypto for access.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/402
Bullish on Cloudflare :)
Metamask is a giant pain for new users. I was hoping this would somehow get rid of it. Perhaps the browsers could integate this functionality.
Pretty funny. I'm sure NYC and Seattle have blockchain dev scenes than London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_technology_centers#Glo...
