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Except that it is much simpler and more straightforward for someone to pay for a super node to help serve all their content. You don't need to mess with settin
by CuriouslyC 4y ago
Except that it is much simpler and more straightforward for someone to pay for a super node to help serve all their content. You don't need to mess with setting up the server instance, configuring DNS or setting up services, and if you want to change super node providers you only have to reconfigure your client and you're done, no initial setup or DNS shenanigans.
- nine_k 4y agoNo DNS shenanigans? Maybe! Then what, DHS shenanigans? There must be some scheme of symbolic addressing. DNS, of all things, is reasonably decentralized, it only requires SOA records for top-level domains to be propagated in concert. (It has other shortcomings though.)
- CuriouslyC 4y agoProbably something in the vein of a DHT. There is still a lot of progress that can be made in that area, in terms of performance, content addressing and cooperative/adversarial search strategies though. I pick on DNS because it's an easy example of another thing you have to manage hosting your own content. Also, domain names are a hot mess and people mostly prefer to have identities ala Facebook, which could easily built into a decentralized protocol.