@babbage @danhon bingo – a lot of people don't realize that servers aren't just storing their own user's media, but also the images/video/etc. of everyone's entire social graph.
cache pooling is actually a really clever idea... it would get rid of some of the decentralization, but sharing a pool with a small circle of people you trust (like a family cell plan!) would make self-hosting a lot more attainable for many people ?