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Aren't the main reasons everything went centralized: bandwidth and reliability? Maybe this can be solved with good caching. But what you don't want is your si
by huuu 10y ago
Aren't the main reasons everything went centralized: bandwidth and reliability?
Maybe this can be solved with good caching.
But what you don't want is your site / post going viral which will bring down your internet connection.
- daurnimator 10y agoI'd say the main thing is people's inability to reason without serialisability. Without the serialisation of actions that centralisation gives, it's much harder and hence more expensive to create things.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 10y agoWhich is why you want content-addressable decentralized storage, so the content gets distributed either peer to peer or through public caching infrastructure that's operated by ISPs, just as IP router are nowadays.
- Kubuxu 10y agoThis can be solved with for example IPFS. When you download a file you also make it accessible to others. This means that reverse scaling effect kicks in. The more popular the file is the less people access it from original source.