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How is one supposed to find files on #IPFS?

I love that it's based on #DHT of old https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/dht/#kademlia though in practice mediated by a central indexer (IPNI) https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipni/ .

But what made DHT useful in #eMule was the search by filename or other human-readable metadata, so of course they removed all of that!?
https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/cid-concept-is-broken/9733/16

So you can't search a file by its checksum, let alone its filename. You need to know someone who already has the file, and ask them where to look.