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It doesn't change IPFS fundamentally, it just provides a simple way to get to IPFS content and a place where it gets cached. We hope it help legitimize IPFS.

Hey, thanks for your work! This is an exciting start to the dWeb!

Any chance you guys would also support DAT, GUN, WebTorrent, and SSB? I know Feross, Dominic, Mathias, etc. would love to introduce you to them. Ping me? mark@gun.eco

You'll need a "centralized" version of a web site for those that don't use IPFS today. That's what a gateway provides. Clients using the IPFS protocol will ignore them and fetch the distributed version.

>Clients using the IPFS protocol will ignore them and fetch the distributed version

Except they won't know the hash for the content they're looking for..

Clients and gateways use the same DNS entries to know that.

Yes and cloudflare has already demonstrated both their ability and willingness to de-platform.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922