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There was some talk of this issue in the recent fediverse inefficiencies thread. I'm hopeful that in the future we'll have a decentralized solution for file hosting but for now I deeply believe that users should pay for their own file hosting.

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[โ€“] Lemmchen@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This comment for example, after about a week or two most of the visibility and interaction of it will drop to zero. At that point, this comment should expire and no longer exist.

That's an incredible naive and egoistic take. Think about all the knowledge that is getting lost by applying this approach. How many times have you searched for some obscure thing and found the answer only on some five years old reddit post? That information would be lost for ever if you had your way.

[โ€“] moon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 15 hours ago

I think the massive privacy benefits outweigh things like that, which should be documented properly anyways