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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sosodev@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Is a p2p system for media with the instances just hosting magnet links too slow for fediverse purposes? To me this seems like the most resilient way to handle media in a decentralized system

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

If a social network is to take off, it must be accessible from mobile devices behind CGNAT (carrier grade network address translation).

[-] 56_@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

p2p from behind a CGNAT works just fine as long as a single server is accessible and can mediate connections between other peers. Most non-servers are behind some sort of NAT these days.