Re:The case for the decentralization of online forums
by XorNot on Saturday June 10, 2023 @10:20PM
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I have a slightly different take on this, which is that the real problem is "expected load".
I pay for a certain amount of internet bandwidth - and depend on it! I work from home. Now I'd be willing to part with some amount of that, particularly in off-hours, to support a decentralized service - particularly a forum.
But I want to know what my commitment and loads are going to be upfront. I remember playing with IPFS and being extremely annoyed that just running the node ate something like 10mbps of my internet connection just by existing and doing nothing.
As far as I know none of the decentralized service ideas have a good answer as to how to spread the load or limit the load they'll impose on people hosting them - nor an answer as to how one can "help out" if they want (various "Raspberry Pi that takes care of it" proposals are not a bad idea).
I pay for a certain amount of internet bandwidth - and depend on it! I work from home. Now I'd be willing to part with some amount of that, particularly in off-hours, to support a decentralized service - particularly a forum.
But I want to know what my commitment and loads are going to be upfront. I remember playing with IPFS and being extremely annoyed that just running the node ate something like 10mbps of my internet connection just by existing and doing nothing.
As far as I know none of the decentralized service ideas have a good answer as to how to spread the load or limit the load they'll impose on people hosting them - nor an answer as to how one can "help out" if they want (various "Raspberry Pi that takes care of it" proposals are not a bad idea).