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When I choose to use a chat application, of my reasons to use it is so that there is an accessible record of the thing.

More concerning to me is with IPFS is privacy. I would want to encrypt it so that only my chat partner and I could read it. But then would it be interesting in enough to live for long on the network?

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IPFS isn't in the business of providing storage for free to users. If you want it stored forever you should pin it or use a service that does the same. Just because the name is permanent doesn't mean the data is unless it's in demand from someone.

The name is misleading, you must concede.

What?

The name of a piece of data is cryptographically secure. It is permanent, but the data that is being named doesn't have to continue to exist on a hard drive just because its name exists.

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