Hey all. Not sure if this is the right place to post this, please point me in the right direction if not:
So I only came here because of the exodus from reddit, but I’m pumped to see this community and all this technology people have been making. It’s like a return to the old-school, user-operated internet instead of the big awful silos that have been dominating the landscape since the early 2000s. I’m in.
So quick question, are there plans or projects in the works for distributed hosting (making it easier for the users to take up the load of storing and hosting content so the instance operators aren’t stuck with the hosting costs)?
I ask because I’d like to work on a project to implement this, as I feel it’d be a massive further step forward. I’m not sure though if there’s anything existing I should be trying to get up to speed on or if I should be thinking in terms of starting my own project if I want to be working on it.
I don’t know if ActivityPub has anything to further distribute beyond instances but what you’re talking about reminds me of IPFS and some crypto backed stuff like Filecoin.
Yah, I’m asking because I have a specific (handwave-y) solution in mind using, among other things, IPFS. I’m not too much up to speed on Lemmy’s internals so my solution probably needs big adjustment before it’d be realistic. I planned to make a separate post where I talk at more length on why I think this is needed and some of the ideas I had about solutions; this post was just to get some idea of how the community looks at the issue.