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Permanent immutable storage a la chia or what IPFS mutated into doesn't only buy you into a ton of really bad technical choices, it completely misses what makes p2p work. It's an antisocial idea, but bigger than that it's an abiotic idea: forests burn and are reborn, communities cluster and collapse. the world breathes. Any appearance of permanence is an illusion.

google drive only appears permanent because profit extraction is a temporarily stable modality of life. the internet archive only appears permanent because of a ton of people are collectively committed to its survival. People love to seed things they care about for absolutely no reason. If people stop caring about something, it is fine for it to disappear and return later if it needs to.

some people need to read Parable of the Sower