“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.)

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.

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