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With millions of daily users Mainline DHT is the most successful truly decentralized social network. Successful decentralization is about incentives, and Mainli
by int32_64 10mo ago
With millions of daily users Mainline DHT is the most successful truly decentralized social network.
Successful decentralization is about incentives, and Mainline DHT's incentive is downloading digital media for free.
- beeflet 10mo agoYeah I think this nostr stuff is a dead end. Social media should be bittorrent-like
- bawolff 10mo agoYeah, but is it a social network? I think the blogosphere is the most succesful distributed social network. People just dont like viewing it that way.
- noman-land 10mo agoI asked this in another comment, but why aren't we using DHTs for peer discovery for social apps? The ratio mechanic provides incentives in the file sharing realm, but you need different incentives for the threaded chat realm.
- attila-lendvai 10mo agocheck out https://ethswarm.org https://ethswarm.org it's only the storage infra, though. but it stores content, nodes, and messages in the same DHT.