Fair comparison. One correction is that IPFS data can be pruned as well.
Practically speaking, BSV nodes almost all have 100% of data still, no pruning. With IPFS, unless you host files yourself, they will likely be gone if your node is offline.
This is very true.
Practically, the best way to ensure data is always online is to host it with multiple independent Cloud providers.
So this goes against the narrative that has been set up. Do you have some evidence or source for this information?
Which statement? That BSV nodes don't prune or that IPFS requires you keep your own node online to host data?
Oh, sorry about that ambiguity. I ment to inquire about your statement about IPFS. And btw I thought I could "dump" data on the IPFS and have someone else host them.
OK. I think I heard somewhere that you can pay a relatively low fee (only once) to get your content hosted, which seemed a bit fishy to me, which is why I still remember it.
If that only means that I can find someone who hosts a node, and he can promise to host it indefinitely but he can still delete it when he wants, then I feel I have been lied to.
Filecoin is built by IPFS team and tries to address the permanence issue.
