The saddest part is that there have surely been acquisition offers from bigger players that they declined, but given how strongly the market favors the hyperscalers and super-capitalized AI companies an acquisition might’ve been their only sensible play. You either sell or get squeezed out.

> What we are missing is a provider-independent way to do this.

A new IndieAuth-like pattern is emerging for how to do this, based on the combination of OAuth, FedCM and DIDs.

https://notes.erlend.sh/3mpodece2qk2g

Perhaps the best thing to have come out of IPFS is DASL, used in AT protocol: https://dasl.ing/

Love DASL (funded by IPFS too)! Iroh also meets the DASL spec (https://dasl.ing/bdasl.html). A great bridging opportunity for agents to build interop between many different content addressed systems!

Yep, and Peergos also chose the same subset as DASL.