Loved this model growing up. Some serious judge Dredd vibes.
seiryth
joined 2 years ago
Quite the strategic rock!😂
Love it. Always makes me chuckle what they killed to get a skull that big!
It's a technical set of problems.
- Where does the front end live, who hosts it, who pays for the compute, and what determines the latest version is the truest version
- where does the data sit. Posts, media, content, and how does this get referenced properly in a safe way.
What's funny is truely distributed compute is totally possible today, thanks to a lot of work done in the blockchain community. Notice I said blockchain and not crypto, we don't want the bullshit associated with that (coins, nfts etc). What we want is distributed compute and storage that can be read in a way that provides the same function as Reddit etc. Coupled with a good client experience like sync.
The biggest problem with that though is that blockchain that is truely distributed is slow by nature, because each block of data is distributed and validated to all nodes that host to keep consistency. And the larger a site becomes, the more data there is to store, and the more resource intensive verification becomes so therefore the nodes slowly gain a higher set of requirements.
So the middle ground is something like Lemmy. Where you can run your own instance, that talks to a wider federated network of instances where no one single entity can control the content.
In tech, a lot of the above is explained by a concept called CAP theorem. It's a really interesting problem that has only really been solved by a few vendors (google spanner is a good one) but even then it doesn't cover the distributed part.
Actually never thought of it this way before, but that may have also been the point the way reddit works changed
Love this, super enlightening!
It's not really right wing. It's just anti type of human. You can be a conservative without the deep desire to suppress a type of person or lifestyle.
Totally agree. Why make someone richer who you ethically don't align to. It just makes their agenda easier.
Just remember to recycle kids.
Corporations did this. Meanwhile the guilt goes onto the regular Joe.
Honestly I think we all need to relax. Lemmy is a niche app that's rising, and it's one guy. I paid for ultra since it was cheaper than the pay for no ads option.
$29AUD or whatever it was per year for ultra is literally paying a dev once a year for their work, and to keep it updated and build features.
The outrage is really ridiculous considering how quickly the app was built, how decent the experience is and the realities of the real world right now.
Pay the cash, you're not going to remember it by the time you're paid next. For the job you did, producing something. Like this guy did.
No worries at all!
Also good to remember there's also newer tech like alphafold from the deepmind project - using AI to really, really accelerate development.
https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/
Absolutely blows my mind.