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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2022-11-11, 23:15

This is still a centralization.

I had an idea years ago about each computer user having outward facing "spikes" that can connect to other users to whom they have specifically established a linkage with (SOMEHOW).

When a user in this decentralized network shares data, a flag is set so that when their compatriots poll each other, that flag is detected and the data is shared, like email, and the receipt is recorded.

The information would only be handed off when those two machines shook hands.

It was a terrible idea when it came to large numbers of users, or large data files, or slow network connections, but the part I thought would be cool was that each user would have an app to assemble the collected data into a coherent dashboard on their end.

It would probably suck for threaded conversations, unless you could blockchain it?

Anyway, that's the clunky way a non computer scientist tries to solve the puzzle of decentralized communal conversations.


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