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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[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I expect something like this to end up being the solution, but I think we're far from a consensus in that regard.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I think most architecture design decisions are made by the developers of the fediverse projects. If the 3 Lemmy devs or the Mastodon maintainers agreed to do it... (And it's technically feasible.) I suppose it could be done.

I mean as long as it works seemlessly and doesn't violate ActivityPub, we don't really need a consensus of all the users and admins. We just need the server admins to install the next update.