this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
407 points (99.8% liked)

Fediverse

28444 readers
938 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Xylinna@lemmy.world
MrCenny@lemmy.world
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
automodbeta@lemmy.world
woelkchen@lemmy.world
407
The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting (evergreenfiles.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by sosodev@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Is file hosting really a must? I mean Reddit and feddit are basically forums. And not many forums allow file uploads. Also, we should have retention limits. Low value posts are allowed to fade away. High value posts that have some level of interaction stay alive longer.

[โ€“] Azzu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Reddit is basically entirely image or video posts, all hosted by reddit directly.

load more comments (5 replies)