👽 basil_mori

As someone who doesn't use nearly any social network regularly, this article is extremely interesting. I don't know nearly enough about network programming to know how easy or hard it would be to create something better able to scale, but clearly it's something to think about.

https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/

3 years ago · 👍 lykso

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👽 lykso

Peer to peer systems with "super nodes" for discovery and improving reliability seem like the right category of thing for social apps. · 3 years ago