The issue is that the images would be hosted on the instance itself - meaning you’d have whatever got uploaded on a local computer.
Then you have to make sure that everything is legit and above-board before you get overwhelmed with illegal content and the cops start coming after you.
Yeah, this is the perpetual challenge. I wouldn’t mind hosting an open server and dedicating resources to it, but I can’t afford for it in (and have no interest in it) becoming a full time admin job, which is what’s needed to prevent the problems you mention.
Freenet’s design was near perfect; the blobs you hosted were (are?) encrypted file segments that are assembled by a client into a file that can be decrypted. As a host, you have plausible deniability; you literally have no idea what the blobs you’re serving can be assembled into (unless you put them there). It’s great for political dissidents and libre journalism; it’s great for hosts who are willing to donate server resources but don’t want the burden of content administration. OTOH, it’s equally good for warez, CP, fascist and (other) terrorist coordination, and general naughtiness. It’s also slow as fuck (or was, years ago).
I keep waiting for a modern, performant version of Freenet, but any such system would suffer from abuse, and there’s a moral question about knowing that you are, in some way, enabling some amount of content you may strongly feel opposed to.
The issue is that the images would be hosted on the instance itself - meaning you’d have whatever got uploaded on a local computer.
Then you have to make sure that everything is legit and above-board before you get overwhelmed with illegal content and the cops start coming after you.
Yeah, this is the perpetual challenge. I wouldn’t mind hosting an open server and dedicating resources to it, but I can’t afford for it in (and have no interest in it) becoming a full time admin job, which is what’s needed to prevent the problems you mention.
Freenet’s design was near perfect; the blobs you hosted were (are?) encrypted file segments that are assembled by a client into a file that can be decrypted. As a host, you have plausible deniability; you literally have no idea what the blobs you’re serving can be assembled into (unless you put them there). It’s great for political dissidents and libre journalism; it’s great for hosts who are willing to donate server resources but don’t want the burden of content administration. OTOH, it’s equally good for warez, CP, fascist and (other) terrorist coordination, and general naughtiness. It’s also slow as fuck (or was, years ago).
I keep waiting for a modern, performant version of Freenet, but any such system would suffer from abuse, and there’s a moral question about knowing that you are, in some way, enabling some amount of content you may strongly feel opposed to.
Filecoin?
I have a knee-jerk negative reaction to anything with “coin” in the name (aside from bitcoin), but I’ll check out out.