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A comment on FOAM: The Importance of Time Synchronization.

Re:FOAM: The Importance of Time Synchronization by _-richard on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @11:33PM (#17036180)
The margin of error on this system, running on mobile devices with inconsistent and unpredictable OS and network latency/overhead must limit its usefulness.

It's cool though, and nice to see another .space in the wild.

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Re:FOAM: The Importance of Time Synchronization by tfha on Thursday May 10, 2018 @12:36AM (#17036417)
It's also very easy to fake/attack. Sybils in this system would not be difficult to spin up.
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Re:FOAM: The Importance of Time Synchronization by hndamien on Thursday May 10, 2018 @07:11AM (#17037855)
How? nodes validate each other in the mesh.
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