[AnneDev]

I think that in the end, the way to really address these issues is with WebTorrent or a similar service. When you're online, you should be:

    1. contributing your own bandwidth to the images you upload

    2. contribute your own bandwidth to the images you look at.

If you look at an image, maybe you should be required to seed it twice over. If you upload your image, maybe you have to seed it at least 10 times for it to stay up past a certain deadline.

As a user of image websites and, well, websites in general, I'd gladly contribute my bandwidth to help the services run. Or even act as a mirror rather than a shared peer.

What do you think about that? It could lessen the load on the image host and help scale things. I just can't seen this happening if you embed an image directly unless you embed iframes or require users to go to the site itself.

[exDM69]

Although the idea is great but I'm not comfortable with the legal implications of "seeding" the stuff I view. It might work in some legislations but I'd be putting myself in too much risk under my local law.

[rorosaurus]

What if everyone "seeded" random content that others are browsing? Sort of like a Tor Relay for P2P traffic. Everyone assumes some small responsibility and yet could argue plausible deniability.

[radlad]

I believe Freenet and IPFS are both built on this idea.

[voltagex_]

Upload metering is happening again in Australia. Especially on mobile devices, this could get super expensive.

[fiatjaf]

I liked everything you said.