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

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If a social network is to take off, it must be accessible from mobile devices behind CGNAT (carrier grade network address translation).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Because that’s where all the users are. The “social” aspect of a “social” network. Anyone can host a forum but it’s useless without users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

p2p from behind a CGNAT works just fine as long as a single server is accessible and can mediate connections between other peers. Most non-servers are behind some sort of NAT these days.