I don’t actually want to do this right now, but I do want to know if it’s really decentralized yet. Completely looks like it means each of:

  • A client ✅
  • A personal data server ✅
  • A relay ❓
  • Labelers ✅
  • Feed generators ✅

It looks like the relay might be the bottleneck. If I’m understanding the protocol correctly, a relay could consume less than the whole network so it doesn’t have to be ridiculously expensive to operate, but I’m not finding examples of people doing it.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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      2 years ago

      A firehose relay takes TB’s of storage

      which is similar nonsense which ActivityPub has with replicating whole datasets everywhere… cept its one company controlling the whole shebang. its a failure of design.

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        My friend, it’s not nonsense, it’s basically how decentralised communication has to work if you want any reasonable level of recency & history in the data.

        Usenet was basically the original and I believe a modern news provider requires something like 50 petabytes of storage to run a 10 year data retention service