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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.
anyway to use torrent protocol somehow? Like popcorn time did?
Ipfs would be similar but more purpose based
this is actually a super interesting idea of which i have never seen proof of concept. other than maybe freenet or something.