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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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[–] silverpill@mitra.social 11 points 2 months ago

Blockchain is a bad choice for a social network, it's expensive and all data is public. But since we're talking about decentralization, let's make a rough comparison.

Bitcoin: 24229 nodes (source: https://bitnodes.io/)
Fediverse: 30005 nodes (source: https://fedilist.com/)

Most of blockchain networks are much smaller than Bitcoin, so they don't even come close to the Fediverse in terms of decentralization.