Reading the white paper you find the “serverless” has servers. Each community needs to be always online to serve captchas to posters. The system is federated on community level, instead of instance level, and uses DHT instead of DNS.
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 weeks agoFederation.
Cochise@lemmy.eco.br 2 weeks ago
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I thought Blockchain was how the protocol knew how to federate, e.g. where to find other users. (?) I don’t really remember how Blockchain works but iirc it is a way to verify trust, e.g. this person really is /u/sem because our shared document says they are.
I know DNS is an alternative but it kind of sucks. Bluesky is inventing it’s open DiD thing for identity and it is centralized in practice but might be a good system. And I have no idea how it works.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Blockchain works like bittorrent. That’s why bitcoin was called bitcoin.
Federation doesn’t require blockchain. Blockchain was created for a very unique solution to storage of digital cash transactions that’s not relevant in almost any other system’s storage.