You are just substituting one for another. Find enough people to chime in a dollar to fund a VPS? Find enough people to form a high bandwidth bittorrent mesh?
Potato potato, good luck serving the global market with a bittorrent version of dnf update
Potato potato, good luck serving the global market with a bittorrent version of dnf update
Doesn't distribute using bittorrent but they're pretty global and what they're doing seems to be working.
I'll add that those CDN bills are not at all insubstantial. But still peanuts compared to the actual development costs.