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[–] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago (40 children)

I don't quite like that idea. It's something I really hated on Reddit. It just discourages new people from joining. Besides, you could self host an instance with accounts claiming to be made in 1970.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (28 children)

Good point. I didn't think about how easy that would be to fake.

That said I would still prefer it to some subreddit's cryptic karma requirements. If it worked I mean.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (27 children)

And here's the spot where I point out that using a blockchain for recording accounts would be a good technological fit for a decentralized system like the Fediverse, and then get pilloried for being a "cryptobro" or whatever.

Seriously, all that you'd need to use the blockchain for would be a basic record of "this account holder has this name on that instance" and you get all sorts of unspoofable benefits from that. No tokens, no fancy authentication if you don't want it, just a distributed database that you can trust.

[–] Prking 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Putting aside that this use case doesn’t meet the five requisites for block chain use, the fediverse in general and Lemmy is already struggling with too much data being stored and moved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Searching for "the five requisites for blockchain use" isn't finding anything relevant, what requisites do you mean?

This wouldn't be storing more data, it would be storing existing data. It would just be putting it somewhere that can be globally read and verified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you store data in a decentralised way without have many redundant copies? The decentralisation of Blockchain is from many machines maintaining their own copy of the entire history. The entire xo dept I herebtly stores more data. Your suggestion is to literally store more data, claiming it won't store more data only suggests you don't know how blockchain works.

And that's not even including any overhead of implementing a Blockchain in the first place. Or the fact you'll be storing data on literally every user even if they never interact with your instance, pr even if their instance is entirely blocked from yours. And there's no way around that, if you do manage to selectively store some subset of users then when you do need to include that data you're trusting the subset of maintainers who do have that user's data which, initially, is only the user's home instance so we're back to square one.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Yes, my point is that that sort of thing is exactly what blockchains are for. They handle all of that already. So there's no need for Fediverse servers to reinvent all of that, they can just use existing blockchains for it.

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