Agreed! IPFS for long term image and video storage seems like a good model, if the IPFS address could be included in the ActivityPub message then it be up the server whether it just passed that along to the user, if the server pins it itself into a cache, or just keeps it as a reference and only pulls on request.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With latency of ~5s to retrieve the content requested source I don't think it is feasible to make good UX on lemmy to view images. It coud be possible to do for short form video.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it was integrated into lemmy itself and every instance now was using ipfs wouldn't latency go down?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think 5s was latency for protocol itself. Someone would need to make some experiments and show that it is a feasible approach to deliver images fast enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh shit that's wack. I'd love to see it done. Maybe one day I can try it, for now I'll stick to my hello worlds