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> truly distributed means of hosting is everyone hosting their own websites

That means "self-hosted". Distributed hosting means you can't host it in one place. I agree though, that one might consider it as a form of decentralized hosting if everybody hosts their own stuff, which you also totally can now that we have cheap computing power like raspis.

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Comcast charges $10 for every 50 GB of bandwidth used after 1,024 GB a month. Which may be prohibitive.

And, unfortunately, some of us don't have a choice of ISP at home.

Yeah that's unfortunate. Luckily on HN are also many people who live in more developed countries. ;-)

And on a more serious note: Even in your situation a self-hosted solution might be more free. Then don't host it at home, but discuss with universities, hacker/maker clubs and companies in your surroundings and host it behind their internet connection. Usually you need one member of such an organisation to support you and then you can simply do it.

the cheapest computer we all have are home routers. would be nice to them coming with ipfs preinstalled (and perhaps turned on by default!)

There are some open source router OS projects. I bet they could be convinced to consider such a suggestion with some pull requests, emails and/or a few sponsoring $$$.

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