We are not going to do what you suggest. Instead, our approach is to use the RAM people aren't using at the moment for a fast edge cache close to their area.
We've tried this architecture and get very low latency and high bandwidth. People would not be contributing their resources to anything they don't know about.
Finally, we would like the possibility of setting up market dynamics in the future: if you aren't currently using all your ram, why not rent it out? This matches the p2p edge architecture we envision.
In addition, our work on WebGPU would allow you to rent out your gpu to a background tab whenever you're not using it. Why have all that silicon sit idle when you could rent it out?
You could also donate it to help fine tune our own sovereign model.
All of this will let us bootstrap to the point where we could be trusted with a download.
We have a rather paranoid approach to security.
What services would you need that Hugging Face doesn't provide?
That is not true. I am serving models off Cloudflare R2. It is 1 petabyte per month in egress use and I basically pay peanuts (~$200 everything included).