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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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[–] sosodev@lemmy.world 28 points 8 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 6 hours ago

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Ha! That’s awesome!