On: The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

[rhaps0dy]

Would it be possible and good to use desktop users' browsers as WebTorrent hosts for images? This would make the users pay for their browsing, allowing for the experience to be without ads.

[takeda → rhaps0dy]

Isn't what projects like https://freenetproject.org/ or https://www.torproject.org/ essentially do?

[rhaps0dy → takeda]

I don't know about freenet, but definitely not tor. Tor uses a kinda-p2p net to mask the destination of your traffic, but doesn't reduce your bandwidth hosting bill.