The fediverse's decentralized nature poses a vexing file hosting conundrum - how can we sustainably support the community's voracious appetite for shared media?

Disclaimer: I wrote this article and made this website.

There was some talk of this issue in the recent fediverse inefficiencies thread. I’m hopeful that in the future we’ll have a decentralized solution for file hosting but for now I deeply believe that users should pay for their own file hosting.

  • C126English
    18·
    2 months ago

    anyway to use torrent protocol somehow? Like popcorn time did?

    • tiddyEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Ipfs would be similar but more purpose based

      • C126English
        21·
        2 months ago

        Never heard of that for, it looks exactly built for this problem, better than torrent. Good call.

    • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      this is actually a super interesting idea of which i have never seen proof of concept. other than maybe freenet or something.

    • TriflingToadEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      if it was easy to set up id definitely host a terabyte of Lemmy. As a pet.