[onetrickwolf]

> If you can not have one guy taking up the mantle and doing the hosting, how can you get hundreds to do the same?

Well I mean if you were to use a public blockchain like Ethereum it's likely the Ethereum community wouldn't be going away. I am not thinking about rolling out our own chain.

> Community run projects have existed for decades on the internet. They never needed a blockchain to persist

Unfortunately my experience hasn't really been the same. Community data controlled by a single user can go away pretty easily. If you open up the data and let people host their own database then you don't have a single source of truth.

Our data is largely just a ledger of who owns what with minimal meta data.

> IPFS potentially

Thanks will look into it!

[miracle2k]

This is really interesting, and I'd love to learn more about it. One thing to look into is rollups - they will soon enable custom application with cheap transaction fees, but with the full security of Ethereum. See e.g.: https://docs.celestia.org/category/recipe-book/