https://github.com/cryptog0/welcome2web3#social-media-on-web...
> The cost of storing information on the Blockchain is referred to as GAS and at the time of writting costs roughly $2 USD per 1kb of data. To put this into perspective, a high resolution photograph can be upwards of 4000kb, or $8,000.
Even if this estimate is three orders of magnitude off, this idea is DOA.
That readme file has little original content, and is riddled with speculation, errors and typos. I think there are more substantive criticisms of Web3 available, this is possibly one of the worst I've seen.
Why would you toss it up on IPFS? IPFS isn't a decentralized storage network, it's a data routing/transmission protocol with a DHT.
If my goal was to keep a photograph in perpetuity, I wouldn't necessarily even want to put it on a decentralized system -- I'd put it on archive.org, or amazon glacier.
Tech that's currently on testnets solves all the "problems" mentioned. It doesn't mention any of these solutions.
Also, use the right tool for the job. Storing a 4MB file on the ETH chain is probably not the right tool for the job.