to successfully use IPFS you must either host your own pinning servers or pay to use a 3rd party. otherwise your content is stored on end user devices and automatically garbage collected.

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so in practice most apps built on IPFS storage simply offload the data to 3rd party providers like “web3.storage” and “infura”, right along all those cool monkey pics.

in summary: there is no free lunch for content storage on the internet.

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