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Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they've been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder if the fediverse shouldn’t be individually instanced. Like Each persons phone/browser is their own individual “instance”. Maybe a central hub/series of hubs (like instances as they are now maybe) that act like dns servers to point everyone around. No content is hosted on them, they just tell everyone’s apps where to look to the other apps for posts.

I have no idea, I’m a moron and I don’t know how the internet actually works. I’m guessing this is a problem at scale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're not a moron, you were slightly right with dns. You're idea is actually quite sound and it's something I'm interested in also. Basically p2p social networking.

We used to be able to stream 1080p via torrent stream p2p. We could do it.