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But how is it different from hosting my own homepage (on tor or freenet)? It does everything you described without the blockchain fanciness.
by kristianov 9y ago
But how is it different from hosting my own homepage (on tor or freenet)? It does everything you described without the blockchain fanciness.
- Terr_ 9y ago> But how is it different from hosting my own homepage How is a "distributed social network" different from "a homepage"? ...Really? It implies a hell of a lot more than a static website. Subscriptions. Message-passing between nodes. Establishing (and breaking) bidirectional friends-links. Protocols for content-types, privacy restrictions, and metadata... > without the blockchain fanciness Yes, that is intentional. Like I said in my post, I'm very cynical about how much "blockchain" actually brings to the table. I'm focusing purely on the "decentralized" part.
- drdeca 9y agoI think people might have been interpreting your comment about blockchains as being along the lines of "people try to apply blockchains to /other/ things that they don't help much with", rather than meaning that they don't seem to do much for social networking sites. Also, while I like blockchains for some stuff, I agree with much of what you are saying here.