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You could have an extremely optimized text-only platform that would cost pennies to run and scale, but who would join?
by CrampusDestrus 3y ago
You could have an extremely optimized text-only platform that would cost pennies to run and scale, but who would join?
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoI would. Especially if the switching costs between paying those pennies and running my own node on a raspberry pi were low. And as the situation re: the normal approach continues to deteriorate, others might too. If you really need something larger, the text could be an IPFS CID. Sure, you have to pin the data, so maybe that's a few more pennies, but IPFS has nice scalability features that would keep this overhead fairly low.
- rglullis 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoYeah, I guess that reiterates the "who would join" point. I've tried to get my friends to join me on SSB. No luck. We may have to wait for the solar flare that knocks out the internet. Then point-to-point stuff like SSB will be the only thing that's working... between the seventeen people that were using it in the first place.