Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook

Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by kabacha on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:26PM (#16881719)

> Diaspora is federated, which for non-technical users is worse than FaceBook itself. The individual nodes (to which thousands of users are connected) will have far fewer resources to secure themselves than a behemoth like FaceBook

That's a weird argument - it doesn't even make sense no matter how you look at it.

1. Security is more or less centralized as per core code and core protocol. 2. Why do you imply big monolith is secure than a small instance? Where's the logical connection in that?

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Re:Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook by beagle3 on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:49PM (#16887462)

It's more than the app (whose code and core protocol you've mentioned) - it's keeping OS up to do, firewalls, opsec, watching for suspicious activities: These are all things that facebook (the company) does that need to be taken care of on every pod/node.

If it's federated, it means thousands of accounts are likely going to live on each server - and many of those servers will be easy to hack. It is in that sense the facebook does a better job securing it (and they have shown that they can do opsec) -- not any theoretical "centralized vs distributed" argument.

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