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Would blockchain work better for the Fediverse, instead of Email Style Instances? (lemmy.world)
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I recently came across three separate platforms:

Qortal: https://qortal.org/

ZeroNet: https://zeronet.io/

and

Plebbit: https://plebbit.com/

That all claim to be completely decentralized.

There's even talk about how Plebbit is more decentralized than the Fediverse, because the Fediverse is based off of instances.

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/s/0ynXzrD5H6

And I was curious, would such a setup work better for the Fediverse, or is it basically just a huge scam/waste of time and money?

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[–] lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

They aren't scams, they are tech nerds trying to re-invent another wheel. Plebbit looked the strongest to me imho but advertising a 4chan clone as your top site on the chain/torrent network will raise alarm bells with most folks.

The two main problems I see with these approaches:

  • Chain-based: lots of cpu and inter-node traffic for what? Guarenteeing you're seeing the current version of the site? meh
  • Torrent-based: quirky, less popular sites will have less peers and you may be waiting forever to see the site.

Not really doing it for me at all to be honest.