Replying to Avatar ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ

blossom is definitely a better way to do it, it's simple to add naive propagation mechanisms like forwarding queries to other blossom servers that are storing the same type of data, and then caching them

actually, after i get done with making an actually stable relay i need to write a blossom server
Avatar
keet dont tweet 1y ago

why not just use a p2p platform? clients can then load files via multiple servers at once, can use index and dht lookups, anyone can add servers

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Avatar
ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

DHT does not scale well

Avatar
keet dont tweet 1y ago

scales fine just depends how you use it

'the concurrent number of users of Mainline DHT is from 16 million to 28 million' https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_DHT

Avatar
ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

SHA1 haha lol, man this tech is so old... i mean, it works but SHA1 is broken

Avatar
ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

also still used for git commit hashes... they really should do something about that

Avatar
keet dont tweet 1y ago

bittorrent is sha256 now

Avatar
ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i would hope so!

Avatar
ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

but git is still SHA1

Avatar
you 1y ago

not really, there's a transition plan in place, and places like gitlab accept it already https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/08/28/sha256-support-in-gitaly/