Thoughts? They claim to be aiming for decentralized media hosting.
Discussion
How are they going to achieve censorship resistance and decentralization if they are building on a block chain?
Block chains require consensus at some level. And no one is going to come to consensus over controversial media.
Its kind of cool what Odyssey has achieved so far but I can't take them seriously when they talk about decentralization and blockchains in the same sentence.
Also what about the ethical question of all their existing token holders? Are they just going to shutdown the token?
These are good questions. I’d like to see a lot more explained about it, and I plan to look the blockchain tech up after work and see if there’s any public materials.
I’m also wondering about the investment required to become an alternative provider for something like this. It’s not decentralized if only a few big companies can afford to host.
it's arweave AO (Actor Oriented) - latest in the endless series of arweave permaweb since 6 years now
i don't see how any of it will make money, and you should see the specs on the servers they have to use for these things... 256Gb memory, 16 terabyte disks, 10tbit network, they cost like $5000/month to run
it all just looks like VC's burning fiat to me
Yeah. That sounds super decentralized 🙄
The corporate version of decentralization is “you can switch between our various subsidiaries,” not freedom.
well, i'm getting paid to build things for this arweave thing
only part time basis actually, and the rest of my time i am building for nostr, hopefully i'll release something genuinely useful and maybe get funded by actual nostr/bitcoin people later, in the meantime i'm swimming in the nostr
Arweave has bought them apparently
idk if it is related but i'm building an aggregator for nostr, bluesky :bluesky: and fartcaster 💨 that pushes to "permanent storage" lol
i can't really take any of this seriously but i'll build the thing anyhow
You used to be able to see deleted bluesky posts somehow, is it still possible? I wish I had access to all my posts from before I got banned
(asking because I have tried Googling previously)
it depends on whether all the replicas banned you like whoever in the stupid federation, who all have their noses up the arse of potator incorporated (my preferred anagram of atproto)
i've poked at the protocol and i have to build an aggregator that acts as a read-only hub that pulls events from a number of federation nodes, the data format and RPC API is awful, overly complex, badly labeled and plain ugly
I don't think there was any federation at the time of my ban :(
I think I had interactions with the lady who doxxed fiatjaf which I'd especially like to see
I was "blocked by pfrazee" @hstark.bsky.social, not asking you to look tho, if the data still exists your work should help it stick around at least
I think they'll lose to nostr but their head start allows them to at least exist