The fediverse's decentralized nature poses a vexing file hosting conundrum - how can we sustainably support the community's voracious appetite for shared media?

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.

  • Charlie FishAEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I know I’m not necessarily the target audience for this. But it feels too expensive. 6x the price of Cloudflare R2, almost 13x the price of Wasabi. Even iCloud storage is $0.99 for 50 GB with a 5 GB free tier. But again, I know I’m not necessarily the target audience as I have a lot of technical skills that maybe average users don’t have.

    If you ever get around to building an API, and are interested in partnerships, let me know. Maybe there is a possibility for integration into [email protected] 😉.

    • sosodev@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, I wish it could be cheaper but I’m not a corporation. Instead I’m dependent on them to make a simpler product.

      The target audience is certainly not developers because they can jump through the hoops to setup their own S3 + CDN or similar.