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Spent a few minutes reading about DESO this morning. What an absolute cauldron of VC-backed crypto excrement.

https://www.deso.com/

An immense amount of engineering work has been put in to making it "scale" through the use of low-level use-case-specific optimizations, and reams of documentation has been written, carefully ignoring the fact that social data is truly immense, and that however it's optimized and compressed, it will ultimately scale to PETABYTES of new content PER DAY. The documentation handwaves at "sharding" to reach "1 billion users", but there's no protocol for discovering nodes that hold the data you're using.

Nostr shards from day 1, which has created a lot of problems for us. But at least we're starting with the right assumptions. But we desperately need to lean into the pain of locating relevant content so we can properly solve it over the long term.

DESO is rebrand of Bitclout, which fraudulently misappropriated people 's likenesses with autogenerated profiles and prevented many ppl from withdrawing their Bitcoin. A buddy and I looked into bringing some kind of class action at one point.

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