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
    2•15 hours ago

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

    • 56!English
      1•6 hours 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.

      • @ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5•15 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.