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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by celkam on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:02PM (#18330244)
I've been thinking about this a bit, and my main concern about SOLID powering a social network is that it would thrash Pods from users with thousands of friends requesting thousands of documents on the same pod every x seconds, which might work for commercial servers but end up being a DDOS on smaller Pods.

I guess I'm worried about the power need to do this at scale, and that we'll end up with something analogous to bitcoin mining pools where there's few practical options for the average user.

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Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted ... by gibsonf1 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @09:24AM (#18353623)
It's a good point, simply solved by people with a bunch of friends needing a reliable POD. I think the point of Solid is that you pay for service, even if it's a small fee. So if you have huge social needs, you might have to pay a bit more for a reliable POD.
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