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@sh.itjust.works 16 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] tiddy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ipfs would be similar but more purpose based

[–] C126@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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