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The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting (evergreenfiles.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] C126 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] tiddy 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ipfs would be similar but more purpose based

[–] C126 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] TriflingToad 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What would you name your pet