I’ve just lately change into a proponent of a decentralized web. However I am having some bother understanding the logistics of decentralized web sites.
An internet site like twitter, for instance, might be made fully peer-to-peer.
Basically, Twitter has two elements: a database containing each tweet, and a person interface that may entry this database.
However this database could be made decentralized; an concept I had in my head makes use of a tree-like construction:
Each U_N block accommodates a ‘key’ that identifies that person. Each T_(A B) block accommodates a tweet, a string of plaintext, and an identifier, one thing that solely the person with the right non-public key may generate.
And a person interface might be designed that reads from this tree, and makes use of some algorithm to type and discover related tweets.
And one thing like this might simply work as a result of the dimensions of every block is comparatively small, making it doable for the typical individual to obtain it in its entirety.
If we replicated the identical factor with YouTube, for instance, every node would simply have megabytes of information. So the blockchain would quickly strategy greater than the typical individual may deal with. It’s estimated that YouTube has over 800 million movies, so I do not assume we’ll attain a tough drive measurement that may deal with this within the close to future.
And the identical goes for a lot of different present web sites; decentralization requires each person to take care of their very own copy of your complete database. Does this simply make decentralized networks infeasible?