make a decentralized system that scales quickly and efficiently with usage and has a higher uptime than any server based site like reddit
It is like the holy grail of a decentral web, and it is (currently) very hard to achieve without making a tradeoff.
Lemmy trades off scalability and availability for federation. It’s not very effective because instances have to be selected manually, and if any large instance goes down, chaos ensues.
It’s not even truly decentral. More like a somewhat redundant media system.
The best I think we have right now is IPFS. It has scalability and accessibility. But it lacks speed due to DHT searches being hella slow compared to a simple DNS lookup.
It is like the holy grail of a decentral web, and it is (currently) very hard to achieve without making a tradeoff.
Lemmy trades off scalability and availability for federation. It’s not very effective because instances have to be selected manually, and if any large instance goes down, chaos ensues.
It’s not even truly decentral. More like a somewhat redundant media system.
The best I think we have right now is IPFS. It has scalability and accessibility. But it lacks speed due to DHT searches being hella slow compared to a simple DNS lookup.