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[–] vas@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

and distribute the apks on a different website

Or with distributed technologoes such as torrents. Then it's cheaper to operate any required servers.

[–] leduvisc00l@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

And also if a server goes down there are still dozens of seeders ready to seed you the files

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

this would be an ideal use case for IPFS, since that returns the same content address even if you upload something completely independently. I.e. no need for specific torrent files, just upload whatever apps you got and you'll automatically be helping existing uploads.
(with the one caveat that you need to use the same settings, but if everyone uses the defaults that's not a problem)