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Right my point is you’re basically describing a search engine and that requires constant downloads and storage for it. Any useful graph that comes close to cur
by edgyquant 3y ago
Right my point is you’re basically describing a search engine and that requires constant downloads and storage for it. Any useful graph that comes close to current social media levels of discoverability is going to require lots of storage.
Otherwise you’re talking about a simple feed on someone else’s computer delivered to you and this defeats the purpose of federalization.
- _heimdall 3y agoWe must be talking about slightly different things here. Sure the data all has to be stored somewhere, but I'm not arguing for everyone to have a local copy of all of Twitter just so they can search it. I wasn't pushing for federalization at all, and honestly its a bad fit for anything similar to social networks IMO. Federalization doesn't work well if the goal is universal reach, why federate the network graph when you still want to access all data on the network? The fediverse won't work at scale, the sheer amount of data duplication and network traffic would be insane. Even if we could somehow find a way to handle all the traffic, it sure seems like that would fly in the face of environmental efforts so many are onboard with (storage and bandwidth aren't cheap at that scale).