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“Do you trust IPFS more or less than AWS” is an interesting litmus test for finding out where someone lies on the idealist - pragmatist spectrum.

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This question needs context. Trust in what way? Reliability? Being spied on? Safety?

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I am starting with the basic: reliability, integrity, availability, dependability— and not in theory, but in practice.

(Footnote, even this attempt at clarifying the question quickly reveals whether someone values the theory or the performance in practice more.)

Curious to hear your interpretation of which way it revealed — I have more comments to add that may skew one way or the other after your follow up but I'd like to hear the cold read first

I wasn't assuming a value judgment, I was just genuinely curious which way you felt my questions tilted on the idealist-pragmatist axis.

Regarding which one I trust more for basic reliability, availability, etc. concerns I lean towards AWS, but this is because IPFS itself lacks the financial incentives at its core to implicitly make those concerns a priority above all else.

When i say litmus test or use terms like idealist-pragmatist, those are neutral observations, not value judgments — whether you are someone who immediately thinks about the potential value of a credibly neutral, decentralized way of storing information versus something like AWS, or someone who immediately thinks about the failures of execution, implementation, longevity, fragility of the social/labor/maintenance structure that applies to anyone doing anything new, especially if it is hard and unproven.