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Is he saying that putting tweets on a blockchain would be a very good idea?

Or is he saying that we should somehow enforce that all relays host all the data forever and that somehow will make the network less centralized? Maybe he will be interested in Farcaster.

In any event, I think he doesn't realize that the outbox model is possible -- or how much centralization his suggestions would bring, including any kind of "key delegation" mechanism he may have in mind.
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Peter Todd 2y ago

Why would key delegation centralize anything? PGP has key delegation without issue.

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Peter Todd 2y ago

...and yes, putting tweets on a block chain/git style data structure is a very good idea. That's how you can easily find out how much you've actually seen, and what you may have missed or been censored from seeing.

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₿lack Swan 2y ago

This is how Bluesky operates.

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Peter Todd 2y ago

Scuttlebutt does this too.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

Bluesky is not only completely centralized in a single server today, it is also designed to never possibly become less centralized.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

It just doesn't work in practice. Scuttlebutt users and developers suffer every single day with forking histories and the inability to use the same account in multiple apps or devices.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

Who decides what keys have been revoked or not?