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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[–] hperrin 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Ok, hear me out.

We find the users with the slowest internet and start sending them all the data. They don’t have to keep anything on disk. Then they send it all back and forth between each other. Any time a user makes a request, we just wait for one of the slow nodes to come across the data and send it out.

We use the slowest wires for all the storage. It’s fool proof.

[–] sosodev 50 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Somebody actually did make this as a joke years ago haha https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs

[–] dojan 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was brushing my teeth when reading this comment and inadvertently ended up swallowing all my toothpaste.

[–] TseseJuer 2 points 2 weeks ago

don't forget to spit

[–] hperrin 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ha! That’s awesome!

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