• ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That costs a lot of money. “Finding” that sort of thing is basically just going to involve donating a bunch of cash, on an ongoing basis.

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      2 days ago

      Finding could also mean letting users share hosting responsibilities. Like making fediverse similar to torrenting.

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        1 day ago

        Interesting idea. I don’t know if we have a robust enough infrastructure for that right now, but it’s conceptually interesting.

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            For sure, though at some point you still hit the centralization of DNS. There are distributed DNS resolvers, but you’re still going to be a little bit beholden to domain name authorities. So with that backstop as a given, sometimes it’s better to just live with the hosting company but be as platform-agnostic as possible so that you can jump ship to another one if needed—unless you’re willing to go full TOR, I suppose.

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        At first I thought you meant pitching in for the cost, but you mean more like lending cpu cycles or memory.