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[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I am not surprised. Nothing that modern programmers do makes any sense.

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    [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Sure. Have a standard open peer-to-peer protocol so that social sites can exchange data. This protocol should have a map-reduce call for search across the net. And it should have a download-all call to get all the data from one server so that servers can be forked. No need to duplicate all data all over like a blockchain.

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      [–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I don't know how mastodon works. I only looked at it as a user, and I wasn't impressed.

      Unlike with financial transactions, data verification isn't needed for content.