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Re:AutoDapp: a proposal to decentralize existing web apps by q3k on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:10AM (#22822159)
This is naive of any real-world, large scale use of RDBMS systems. Not to mention any actually distributed storage systems.
Re:AutoDapp: a proposal to decentralize existing web apps by addisonj on Thursday April 09, 2020 @09:35AM (#22822366)
Agreed. You aren't going to get this to work with Wikipedia. But I could see some utility on the small scale (if it weren't easy to break with conflicts). A Discourse install for local discussion in an oppressive regime run across a few hundred commodity computers could be pretty hard to shut down and reasonable to have work for 50k people, the weakness here is that one bad actor could disrupt it just by flooding it with valid but conflicting writes (not to mention being able to just issue deletes against all the state if all actors are treated equally)
Re:AutoDapp: a proposal to decentralize existing web apps by pagutierrezn on Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:12AM (#22822685)
And don't expect it to support normal transactions or participate in distributed ones