PropaGandalf @ PropaGandalf @lemmy.world

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A blockchain can complement a decentralised network by introducing trust into such a network, where the individual members cannot be trusted. This makes it possible to accurately document actions and reward or punish them accordingly. If you take such a distributed CDN network as an example, a blockchain could help to directly reward the individual members according to their contributions instead of building everything on voluntariness and goodwill as in the Tor network.

I myself am not sure who here understands anything about blockchain technology. For you it's just NFT images and shitcoins that you associate with blockchain, isn't it? That knowledge is enough for you to understand the whole technology. Read my other comments and ask yourself first if you have a balanced information base.

Blockchain can bring trust and thus monetisation to a decentralised network. A good example is the Tor network, which is based on voluntariness, and dVPNs, which can have the same network architecture, but where the nodes are paid for their services.

It isn't a silver bullet but in this case it is particularly suitable. I mean, the architecture of CDN is decentralised, but all these servers are controlled by ONE company. So why not leave the whole task to an independent network?

I know well what a CDN is and that's why I don't understand why you build a DISTRIBUTED content delivery network on a single corporation. I mean, the whole architecture is based on decentralised servers that precache the content and share the service load. Why not create an independent network that provides this bandwidth and where each node is rewarded according to its contribution? I know blockchain is a term that pisses a lot of people off, but it's basically the best way to incorporate trust and monetisation into a decentralised system.

I meant the CDN. The Fediverse per see is great!

Exactly my words. I'd love to see a decentralized network to do the job instead. No single point of failure and people can actually earn a bit of money instead of big corpos enriching themselves.

Yeah I see the issue but on the other side you would get a more robust network which could also be incentivised by some sort of underlying blockchain technology. The man in the middle attack could also be mitigated on a technical level.

Well for now we'll have to stick around with cloudflare. I'd just would like to see something managed by a decentralized network. I don't know if it exists, it's more of a sentiment or a general idea.

Sure but maybe something less centralized/proprietary would be preferable

Yep. I think this was even in their app description. Something like: "made by the lemmy creators"

I was one of the first people to try out their alpha but quickly switched over to Rnote as I heavily rely on handwriting and sketching for enriching my notes. For organizing my life I have settled with Emacs and org-mode and for writing papers and collaborating on texts I use Typst. I never really understood the point of using Notion very much and the lack of handwriting support really turned me of. At least it looks very clean.

Thank's mate!

I mean: an award you can give once a month or so isn't bad per se. It was the inflation of those crappy stickers, that they gave you karma and other stuff and that they could be bought what made them unbearable.

Or even better, just highlight posts with a lot of upvotes or so.

Fixed now in 0.0.41

Yeah. It still made me smile.

Very true. I had to laugh when I saw lemmygrad.com

Yes, pretty much. I think this is due to jerboa not selecting the community for you.

It's really great. I tried it out an dits the prefect mixture of LaTeX with markdown and functions. The only issue I see is that it wasn't developed for dynamic screens. I mean having multiple columns may look great on a large screen but on a mobile device? Typst was just came to my mind first because it offers such a powerful way of writing text. But HTML + CSS or anything more advanced than markdown would be great.

Have a look at Solid and ActivityPod. I think they are the closest to what you want to achieve.