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This sounds like a great case for a decentralized web infrastructure like Mastodon uses. Each cat server can be exactly as reliable as the owner feels like maki
by jehb 5y ago
This sounds like a great case for a decentralized web infrastructure like Mastodon uses. Each cat server can be exactly as reliable as the owner feels like making it, and each user can choose a cat server based on their needs, and the whole thing is federated because it's based on open source and open standards.
p2p cats for teh win
- sitzkrieg 5y agomastodon also downloads remote media from all known accounts with no real way to manage it, making it a nightmare to administer disk usage for any decent sized instance. they go the route of your instance being responsible for all remote media, not the other way around https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9567 https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9567
- aembleton 5y agoEach server could have an address that you type into a browser. We could have a 'domain name server' that keeps a list of which address should match to which server. Then people could easily navigate to cat pictures.