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    2 days ago

    I dunno about self hosting on your machine but I’m not opposed to an idea where if you have files to share on a server, you have to provide storage for parts of other files up to a certain percent of the space you use. Or, something like… you have 20gb, you’re only using 5gb, so 15gb are free for the network. If you start using more locally, it opens up space for you to use by clearing shared files. If that makes sense?

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      1 day ago

      Tenfingers is roughly: you want the network to share your data, then you have to share data for the network.

      So for example you share 50MB of data for a large overshare for your 5MB web page.

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          15 hours ago

          Well, then you have to make your website smaller, or extend your sharing space, or lower the oversharing.

          It’s not intended for (nothing forbids it though) very large data sharing, more a personal sharing space.

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            11 hours ago

            I guess that does encourage people to consider file size. Which is something most people don’t these days. I remember when 100k was considered a heavy load for users.

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              7 hours ago

              Yes, and even if your whole site is a full GB, with images, songs and whatnot, you’d only need to have 10GB free for sharing (which is tweakable too!), something many people have, or so I wager.