What's needed is self-hosting, then if you're sharing 100 GiB it doesn't matter to Gab at all.

All that's really needed to democratize the internet is 1) a commercial IPFS cache service and 2) support for IPFS in apps. Brave and Opera already support IPFS.

The reason a commercial IPFS cache is needed is because IPFS is designed around nodes caching data for other random nodes. This is like hosting a Tor endpoint - never going to happen. It's too risky with CSAM, getting raided and having to prove you had no way to access it (good luck). But a commercial service just points the feds at whoever paid the bill. Also lots of nodes have to download from an IPFS source before it gets cached and sped up, so it can't adapt quickly and your source share has to be online all the time.

So instead of paying Gab $10/month to store your uploads you pay Cloudflare $5/month and post the IPFS link to Gab - or anywhere else.

edit: this is 'self-hosting' because if you stop paying Cloudflare you can just host it yourself on your phone or PC, since IPFS links are to content not location, it'll just be too slow to be a social media influencer.

What's needed is self-hosting, then if you're sharing 100 GiB it doesn't matter to Gab at all.

All that's really needed to democratize the internet is 1) a commercial IPFS cache service and 2) support for IPFS in apps. Brave and Opera already support IPFS.

The reason a commercial IPFS cache is needed is because IPFS is designed around nodes caching data for other random nodes. This is like hosting a Tor endpoint - never going to happen. It's too risky with CSAM, getting raided and having to prove you had no way to access it (good luck). But a commercial service just points the feds at whoever paid the bill. Also lots of nodes have to download from an IPFS source before it gets cached and sped up, so it can't adapt quickly and your source share has to be online all the time.

So instead of paying Gab $10/month to store your uploads you pay Cloudflare $5/month and post the IPFS link to Gab - or anywhere else.

edit: this is 'self-hosting' because if you stop paying Cloudflare you can just host it yourself on your phone or PC, since IPFS link it to content not location, it'll just be too slow to be a social media influencer.

What's needed is self-hosting, then if you're sharing 100 GiB it doesn't matter to Gab at all.

All that's really needed to democratize the internet is 1) a commercial IPFS cache service and 2) support for IPFS in apps. Brave and Opera already support IPFS.

The reason a commercial IPFS cache is needed is because IPFS is designed around nodes caching data for other random nodes. This is like hosting a Tor endpoint - never going to happen. It's too risky with CSAM, getting raided and having to prove you had no way to access it (good luck). But a commercial service just points the feds at whoever paid the bill. Also lots of nodes have to download from an IPFS source before it gets cached and sped up, so it can't adapt quickly and your source share has to be online all the time.

So instead of paying Gab $10/month to store your uploads you pay Cloudflare $5/month and post the IPFS link to Gab - or anywhere else.

edit: this is 'self-hosting' because if you stop paying Cloudflare you can just host it yourself on your phone or PC, it'll just be too slow to be a social media influencer.

What's needed is self-hosting, then if you're sharing 100 GiB it doesn't matter to Gab at all.

All that's really needed to democratize the internet is 1) a commercial IPFS cache service and 2) support for IPFS in apps. Brave and Opera already support IPFS.

The reason a commercial IPFS cache is needed is because IPFS is designed around nodes caching data for other random nodes. This is like hosting a Tor endpoint - never going to happen. It's too risky with CSAM, getting raided and having to prove you had no way to access it (good luck). But a commercial service just points the feds at whoever paid the bill. Also lots of nodes have to download from an IPFS source before it gets cached and sped up, so it can't adapt quickly and your source share has to be online all the time.

So instead of paying Gab $10/month to store your uploads you pay Cloudflare $5/month and post the IPFS link to Gab - or anywhere else.

What's needed is self-hosting, then if you're sharing 100 GiB it doesn't matter to Gab at all.

All that's really needed to democratize the internet is 1) a commercial IPFS cache service and 2) support for IPFS in apps. Brave and Opera already support IPFS.

The reason a commercial IPFS cache is needed is because IPFS is designed around nodes caching data for other random nodes. This is like hosting a Tor endpoint - never going to happen. It's too risky with CSAM, getting raided and having to prove you had no way to access it (good luck). But a commercial service just points the feds at whoever paid the bill. Also lots of nodes have to download from an IPFS source before it gets cached and speed up, so it can't adapt quickly.

So instead of paying Gab $10/month to store your uploads you pay Cloudflare $5/month and post the IPFS link to Gab - or anywhere else.

What's needed is self-hosting, then if you're sharing 100 GiB it doesn't matter to Gab at all.

All that's really needed to democratize the internet is 1) a commercial IPFS cache service and 2) support for IPFS in apps. Brave and Opera already support IPFS.

The reason a commercial IPFS cache is needed is because IPFS is designed around nodes caching data for other random nodes. This is like hosting a Tor endpoint - never going to happen. It's too risky with CSAM, getting raided and having to prove you had no way to access it (good luck). But a commercial service just points the feds at whoever paid the bill. Also lots of nodes have to download from an IPFS source before it gets cached and speed up, so it can't adapt quickly.

So instead of paying Gab $10/month to store your uploads you pay Cloudflare $5 month and post the IPFS link to Gab - or anywhere else.