Lemmy seems to be doing pretty well so far. I don’t expect nor want lemmy&fediverse to completely dominate world of social network. That would only make spam/bot worse imo. I want it iust enough for me to enjoy.

HARD PASS

I don’t even have meta/ig account

What’s there to federate about image cdn? If you don’t want to use 3rd party service just self host. You just have to make compromises either way.

I’m not sure about the longevity but a lot of people use discord as CDN apparently. There’s even an API for that.