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That and Mastodon, ActivityPub and IPFS are examples of the sort of thing I have in mind. Also the decentralised flood-fill model of Usenet.
by cabalamat 8y ago
That and Mastodon, ActivityPub and IPFS are examples of the sort of thing I have in mind.
Also the decentralised flood-fill model of Usenet.
- jazzyjackson 8y agoCan you tell me what you mean by flood-fill ? I'm looking at different strategies for sync'ing activity between domains, and ActivityPub / IPFS seem like a lot of conceptual overhead. I'd rather just rsync directories on my friends' servers.
- cabalamat 8y ago> Can you tell me what you mean by flood-fill? OK, imagine a load of servers. Each is connected to some (not all) of the others, and they all peer messages to each other. A -- B -- C -- D | | E -- F -- H | G -- I A message M is sent to one (say A). B asks A "have you got any new messages?" (or it might be A pushes them onto B) and A replies with M. From B, M is sent to C and E. From E it is sent to F and G. Eventually it gets to all the servers on the network. I envisage that each message would have a unique ID consisting of a cryptographic hash of its contents and timestamp.
- rspeer 8y agoYou can't move between Mastodon instances and keep your followers.