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The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting (evergreenfiles.com)
submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by sosodev@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] Deebster@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, so Lemmy doesn't cause the same amount of duplication, but I'd still argue that dedupe is valuable: it saves on hosting costs (your costs, in this case) and users will get a small advantage in having slightly higher cache hits.

[โ€“] sosodev@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

For sure, I'll add it to the list. :)