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.

  • tiddyEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Ipfs would be similar but more purpose based

    • C126English
      1·
      1 hour ago

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