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@lemmy.world 29 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 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@lemmy.world 28 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Ha! That’s awesome!

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 13 points 10 hours ago

You jest but... delay line memory

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

This is amazing and I love it.

[–] grubbyweasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago