People would just pool resources to store the content and would have control over what they decide to store on their servers but wouldn’t be able to influence the user experience because users would just be pulling content from all the servers.

How do you think they’d choose?

If no one is hosting a picture, or even a text post, how do they see it to decide if they want to host it?

And if it’s already there, why does it need someone else to host it?

It just can’t be both, and it kind of feels like you’re trying to slap something together to circumvent what I pointed out about a host being legally liable for what they host…

you would run filter tools to get rid of what might pass through the cracks (just like admins need to do now even on NSFW content free instances

What do you mean by “get rid of” that isn’t what you’re complaining admins do?

Like, I 100% get what you’re trying to say, explaining more in depth isn’t making a difference. I’m saying that what you’re suggesting doesn’t make sense, not that I just can’t understand it.

It doesn’t logically make sense.

Edit:

As a thought experiment the closest to what you want would be a centralized server that just has “placeholders”, I’m assuming you like crypto, so fuck it, we can make these block chains

Each placeholder only holds the location of the server of the account who made the post.

So when you browse, the place holder queries the account who made the post and serves it thru the client.

For comments you could have the person holding the post hold the placeholders for every comment, the comments themselves hosted by the account who made the comment.

That is feasible but there’s a lot of issues that’ll come up.

But I think that’s what you’re wanting, or at least something close to that and actually plausible. Anyway, this would result in every individual hosting their own content, and no one else being liable for anything someone else ever says/posts.