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The Fediverse Desperately Needs Sustainable File Hosting (evergreenfiles.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

limit their size or the volume allowed per user

Fedi software like Misskey already did exactly that. Each user have limited "drive" which can be upgraded/customized per user. People even reuse image they already have on their drive, so it won't be any duplicate files.