With millions of daily users Mainline DHT is the most successful truly decentralized social network. Successful decentralization is about incentives, and Mainline DHT's incentive is downloading digital media for free.
With millions of daily users Mainline DHT is the most successful truly decentralized social network. Successful decentralization is about incentives, and Mainline DHT's incentive is downloading digital media for free.
Yeah, but is it a social network?
I think the blogosphere is the most succesful distributed social network. People just dont like viewing it that way.
I asked this in another comment, but why aren't we using DHTs for peer discovery for social apps? The ratio mechanic provides incentives in the file sharing realm, but you need different incentives for the threaded chat realm.
check out https://ethswarm.org
it's only the storage infra, though. but it stores content, nodes, and messages in the same DHT.
Yeah I think this nostr stuff is a dead end. Social media should be bittorrent-like