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That is not the same as moving your old account to a new instance. If your old server actually dies, your old account data is just gone. And if it dies before y
by olah_1 7y ago
That is not the same as moving your old account to a new instance. If your old server actually dies, your old account data is just gone. And if it dies before you get a chance to migrate, then you're really out of luck.
I just don't understand why people feel such a strong desire to cling to the federated servers model when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already...
- progval 7y ago> when these problems are solved in decentralized protocols already... which ones are you thinking of?
- olah_1 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341801
- thulecitizen 7y agohttp://developer.holochain.org http://developer.holochain.org http://dat.foundation http://dat.foundation http://scuttlebutt.nz http://scuttlebutt.nz
- lokedhs 7y agoThe original question to which I replied were not talking about the case where the server goes offline. If Facebook were to go offline, you'll have the same problem, only worse. As for your final remark, I really can't see a good way to handle such a situation at all. And I've never heard about any protocol that can handle it. What protocol are you talking about?
- olah_1 7y ago> What protocol are you talking about? Any social tools built on top of a decentralized database would do it. - https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db (3Box) - https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun (Iris) - https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/ https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/ (Manyverse, Planetary)