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The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting (evergreenfiles.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by sosodev to c/fediverse

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Which gets back to volunteers going through and moderating it. And the ethical and moral question of whether people who upload it are reported.

And... honestly? if there is even a 20% chance that running a file sharing node (because I just love to give away both bandwidth and storage...) is being used to store CSAM? I ain't doing that shit and most people will similarly run screaming and call the cops.