[yakak]

Keybase and IPFS seem to show that a P2P fediverse scales, I don't understand why people are trying to make a fidonet/BBS style fediverse where 10s of thousands rely on one person' altruism instead of every peer caching some encrypted data and responding to some queries a few minutes or hours a day.

[colinsane]

> I don't understand why people are trying to make a fidonet/BBS style fediverse where 10s of thousands rely on one person' altruism instead of every peer caching [...]

people are doing things like this too. you hear about Mastodon and ActivityPub because it's the easiest to setup, has the widest network, and works "well enough" for the userbase that's grown on it organically over the last decade.

if you're passionate about a particular experimental/p2p design, go seek it out. Secure Scuttlebutt might be up your alley.

[numpad0]

I don’t know how those protocols work but it seems a major problem is no one skillful enough is planning for a constant high-pressure streams of data. Devs always assume that posting is event based ordeal that happens in probability over time rather than as a constant flow.