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.

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    15 days ago

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

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      15 days ago

      Ipfs would be similar but more purpose based

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        15 days ago

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

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      15 days ago

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

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