The Switter stuff is a good reminder about why I'm so very uncomfortable with Cloudflare. I'm not blaming the people behind Cloudflare, who I think know and have expressed why FOSTA is dangerous, but rather Cloudflare's fundamental positioning as a source of centralization.
Content Addressed Storage > Content Delivery Networks
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@cwebber i wonder how difficult it would be to make mastodon use ipfs as a media storage system
(then instances wouldn't need to transfer media directly, they just give each other ipfs hashes and the instance brings it into the local cache)
(and, instances could evict old media with a reasonable guarantee that it'll still exist somewhere in IPFS for later retrieval if necessary)
@chr IPFS is a good start. Whether or not IPFS is precisely the right solution (I'm a Filecoin skeptic) or not is up for debate, but being a content addressed system is the right thing.
This is one reason I gain a lot of hope from Peertube's work in bridging P2P media delivery with the fediverse (thank you @Chocobozzz and contributors!)
