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Base changed people's perception of NFTs and might be the biggest cause of backsliding to using regular server URLs for NFT metadata. I just ran through all of my Base NFTs and 38% of them use centralized web2 server URLs for token metadata.

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Interesting, what do you mean by Base changed the perception of NFTs? That they don’t need to be tied to the main chain?

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No, I mean that because the transaction cost is so cheap that people don’t care about preservation and open access as much. When an ETH project could cost you hundreds in gas to mint, you didn’t trust the NFT data to be on a traditional server because you could be rugged anytime

Add to the mix that right now base does not have any decentralization yet, so we are just buying images that might never exist shortly. Which in my opinion is even worse as you don't have permanent storage and the contracts are run in a centralized L2.