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0 pointsilaksh6y ago0 comments

I don't think its mostly about egos but rather about money. Something like Ethereum offers a potential profit model which ActivityPub does not.

Also ActivityPub relies on servers/federated rather than p2p.

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edf136y ago

It's been tried before on Eth... can't recall the name now but the biggest issue is the Gas price/cost to post any update.

As with all(Most) Blockchains ~ it simply is too expensive to store data. Especially at any scale.

deweller6y ago

A typical solution to this is to store the data outside of the blockchain and then checkpoint a hash of the data snapshot into the blockchain at regular intervals.

This provides tamper resistance to the data.

Incentivizing users or organizations to store large amounts of data is still a problem of course.

toomuchtodo6y ago

It costs ~$1500 for the Internet Archive to store a TB of data forever. Cut them a check or provide an ongoing endowment (along perhaps with some technical resources to scale up a distributed web instead of existing solely in SF) for them to be storage of last resort (everything else can be a tier of caching on your platform).

Let's Encrypt runs for around $3MM/year. Same budget for Internet Archive allows for adding storage for 2PB of content. Scale up accordingly. No blockchain! [1]

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Die5UdaX0AALEtL.jpg

BlueTemplar6y ago

Depends... are decentralized version control systems like git "blockchains" or not?

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