r/ipfs is a subreddit with 17k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses ipfs, decentralized, airdrop, storage, and gateway, and they frequently recommend/review cloud provider and cloud storage solution.
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a set of composable, peer-to-peer protocols for addressing, routing, and transferring content-addressed data in a decentralized file system.
Popular Themes in r/ipfs
#1
Solution Requests
: "Introducing a Modern GitHub Action for deploying sites to IPFS - Built for 2025"
10 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Are there any in-depth books or guides for IPFS?"
10 posts
#3
Ideas
: "What do you guys think about Seedit ? A peer-to-peer selfhosted reddit alternative built on IPFS"
7 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "Introducing Endra - A Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messenger"
3 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "Just realized IPFS might outlive my hard drive"
2 posts
#6
News
: "Release v0.39.0 · ipfs/kubo"
2 posts
Popular Topics in r/ipfs
#1
Ipfs
: "Seedit : peer-to-peer selfhosted reddit alternative Ipfs-based built on top of plebbit protocol"
295 posts
#2
Decentralized
: "Seedit is a Peer-to-Peer Decentralized reddit alternative built on IPFS"
37 posts
#3
Airdrop
35 posts
#4
Storage
: "New IPFS Storage launch!"
29 posts
#5
Gateway
: "Cloudflare's IPFS Gateway will be turned down in August"
16 posts
#6
Blockchain
: "IPCM: InterPlanetary CID Mapping"
13 posts
#7
Curve
12 posts
#8
Memecoin
12 posts
#9
Distribution
11 posts
#10
Protocol
: "arkA — simple JSON video Protocol that works great with IPFS"
10 posts
Products Discussed in r/ipfs
Cloud Provider
3 reviews
#1
Linode
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Fly.io
5.0★ from 1 review
#3
Cloudflare
4.0★ from 1 review
Cloud Storage Solution
1 review
#1
Nextcloud
5.0★ from 1 review
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+1k members(6.5%)
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Last updated: June 30, 2026