Stephan
@stephancill
p2p social
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Stephan
@stephancill
remove the extractive middlemen
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Mike | Abundance 🌟
@abundance
how? 👀 😅
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Stephan
@stephancill
Completely rethink the stack - p2p content hosting - client side feed building - maybe onchain profiles/social graph for composability
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Mike | Abundance 🌟
@abundance
But will it scale? There's value in being able to work with large (social) datasets. Why not just change the incentives so the middleman isn't extractive?
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Stephan
@stephancill
P2P arguably scales better than monolithic architectures, no? But yes I agree there’s a trade off. I don’t think many end users care about being part of large social datasets - as a matter of fact, I think this inability to opt out is a bug, not a feature of the current decentralized social architectures There are also UX trade offs to be made in a p2p architecture, but worth exploring imo
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Mike | Abundance 🌟
@abundance
I think the use cases are very varied, where for some interactions p2p makes perfect sense and for others you need network effects (presumably with economic incentives) that I don't see a p2p approach for. Let's say I'm looking for a tutorial on cooking lasagna. A network like YT works great for that. Finding something like that in a p2p system would be byzantine and exhausting
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Stephan
@stephancill
sorry yeah of course. i'm referring to ephemeral short text content specifically but also just because content is hosted p2p doesn't imply you can't crawl the network and index it. ideally the client just does that for you without relying on a third party
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