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.

  • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Because that’s where all the users are. The “social” aspect of a “social” network. Anyone can host a forum but it’s useless without users.