something needs to happen to decentralize and stabilize image hosting. our current file hosts are doing an amazing job handling this task, but it's really confusing to say that our text is censorship resistant, but our images and videos are not. i don't know what the best solution is, but we do need something long term standing.
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hypothetically- the person(s) who care about the image should host the image. that aligns incentives. not every image needs to live forever and only individuals can choose which they care to retain. the issue is today it’s not easy to self host content. but yet I’m typing this from a mobile phone with over 100GB of storage and an internet connection.
I'm hoping with storage costs continuing to fall, personal servers like Start9 and Umbrel will become more common.