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A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.

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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (13 children)

The biggest issue is who pays for the server infrastructure at scale.

[–] Nomecks@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The Fediverse seems like a good place to implement a distributed, block chain based peering setup. Join a community and share the hosting

[–] QHC@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

OMG why do tech bros try to force blockchain into everything

[–] grue@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think less "Bitcoin" and more "Freenet." IMO the point shouldn't be to try to monetize stuff, it should be to decouple content from the instance it was posted on (i.e., to mirror popular content across instances to distribute the load) while still maintaining control and attribution for the user that posted it.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

But how does blockchain, as a technology, help with that? The Fediverse already has a mechanism for distributing content across multiple instances.

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