I take a deep dive into crypto-based social network Farcaster, aka Torment-Nexus-on-the-blockchain.
I think that crypto/web3 is mostly really dumb and bad, but I also do think that what happens on other decentralised social networks is relevant to understand the fediverse. The different protocols influence each other and I dont think they should be understood in isolation. That is why I wanted to have a better understanding of what Farcaster is, and why a16z wanted to spend so much money on it.
7 Comments
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y
well, there goes my interest.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 2y
knightly@pawb.social · 6 pts · 2y
Seems inefficient, couldn't the same thing be accomplished using local DBs rather than the world's most inefficient ledger?
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
knightly@pawb.social · 3 pts · 2y
What if we don't want global usernames? What if we're entirely satisfied with global user IDs in a DHT?
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
knightly@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2y
No worries, I'm merely confident that the tradeoffs necessary to employ a blockchain aren't worth the supposed benefits thereof.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
knightly@pawb.social · 2 pts · 2y
We already have that, it's called a Distributed Hash Table, no blockchain required.