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by jazzyjackson 1866 days ago
Which, unfortunately, is full of folks who don’t understand that the image disappears when no ones hosting it. People call the IPFS the “perma-web” and expect their content to be hosted in perpetuity for free.

Imaging paying for artwork and not downloading a copy because you think it’s archived. Poor art buyers.

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So it's like torrents when they have no seeders?
Yes, same basic idea. IPFS requires at least one client to be "pinning" the content. Pinata seems to be the preferred choice for NFT's, creating a significant weak point in the ecosystem.
The preferred choice is just to pin your content directly, here’s an example with Hicetnunc:

https://gist.github.com/mattdesl/47f4ea12ea131eed8401bdacf95...

Magical thinking by people who ridicule others for magical thinking.

What a piece of work is man...