Hey, I am curious, are people working on storing fediverse data off the servers? Like using bittorent protocol or ipfs?

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    projects like Garage allow to do so in a distributed way.

    Really? Does this mean that different instances could share a bucket? Do they have to trust each other? I’ll have to jump off the minio train anyway, if you have any tips to get this going would be nice.

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      Garage has deduplication of all files, yes. Obviously if you host something on server not under your control you have to have a certain trust in them. Generally speaking Garage seems to be a good replacement for Minio, but I don’t have any direct tips for migrating.

      There was also a project for Mastodon to sit between it and any S3 storage that would allow sharing and deduplicating files between instances, but I can’t find it right now and forgot the name. But it seemed stuck in a rewrite and not actively developed outside of that.