this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
17 points (90.5% liked)
Fediverse
27842 readers
60 users here now
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!
Rules
- Posts must be on topic.
- Be respectful of others.
- Cite the sources used for graphs and other statistics.
- Follow the general Lemmy.world rules.
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You are describing a different thing than what the idea of the fediverse is. Content is collected at an instance and these instances federate. That's why its called Fediverse: people basically form groups, these group federate. It's a social thing, there is trust involved. With blockchain, the idea is that you don't need to trust a central entity.
I think you talk about something like nostr.
It doesn't need to have the full trustless or buring energy for fun, but it does need to be resilient against instances going down, which currently isn't the case.
What specific edgecase do you have in mind. The fediverse is coping data and is quite resiliant against data loss.
If an instance shuts down everything from it is just gone. ML already ran into dns issues once, if it goes, 20% of lemmy is just gone.
It is not gone. You still have an old copy of the post on your instance.
e.g. https://szmer.info/post/383045
Replaying, posting and making new content is pointless there but the old stuff still stands and it can be read.
I think thats just a thing that will get better over time