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.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Nothing solves the problem of CSAM quite like… making everyone partially culpable in the storage and distribution of CSAM.

    You can’t prove I was hosting child porn. Statistically, we all only had a 70% probability of having it on our computers

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Stuff that isn’t accessed eventually gets deleted. If the Lemmy instances (which are clearnet, of course) delete the references to it, it would go away.