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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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This may unironically be the first time I've ever suggested this: this may actually be a use case for the block chain.
If the user data from all instances was being saved to a distributed and verified ledger, it would fix the problem of one node going down losing all of those users, and would be a decentralized yet centralized way to go about it.
... I feel dirty, I swear I'm not a cryptobro
That sounds like a pretty novel way to go about it!
I wonder how hard it would be to implement in practice?