they/them
What I feel is missing from the practical suggestions section: why cache images at all? They should be stored on the server they were uploaded to, and nowhere else. The image URL would be attached to the post, and could then be used by clients to fetch the image from the original server.
I thought lemmy did this, but it seems not (any more?).
The article is pure fluff. (even includes “synergy”). Most sentences don’t mean anything. Was this maybe just AI generated?
Regarding the topic: if people wanted this feature, it would already have been implemented. It’s not like the topic is obscure, or that it’s difficult to implement.
I’m familiar with gemini, but not active on it or anything. I’d be willing to do some occasional moderation until someone better turns up. I made my own gemini capsule as a rust learning project a while ago, but never put content on it. And I browse the community/sublemmy occasionally.
p2p from behind a CGNAT works just fine as long as a single server is accessible and can mediate connections between other peers. Most non-servers are behind some sort of NAT these days.