[leoc]

There's a misunderstanding here. IPFS' content addressing exists to serve the interests of people who might want to save someone else's content, and of people who might want to find and access content which others have saved, much more than the interests of people who want to upload their own content and wouldn't mind a freebie. (That said, it does does also have advantages for uploaders who don't want to administer an Internet-facing Linux box and don't want to fiddle with DNS to move web hosts.)

[acdha]

That doesn’t seem like a misunderstanding as much as the person you’re replying to has a deeper understanding of how the whole system works. That seems important to ask because as far as I can tell the person they were trying to was under the impression that it provides free hosting.