Essentially for something to be decentralised and not ephemeral, everyone needs a copy of the data.

To go into a bit more detail—one of the biggest benefits of decentralised systems is generally redundancy has to be built in otherwise you have a Single Point Of Failure™️, and then you get data loss when it’s gone. Given any sensible decentralised system is designed to avoid this scenario, that data has to be somewhere, and generally the simplest and less expensive (in terms of processing) way to improve on data in one place, is to have it in every place. Any time the data isn’t in one place or every place, you then have an exercise in figuring out where it actually is. This “finding it” processing is going to take time and effort, and if you imagine a standard semi-popular lemmy post, that’s potentially data coming from all sorts of different places, which may or may not be there—this would inevitably make request times ridiculous and basically no one would use it.

At the end of the day, any kind of processing is energy, cost & time expensive, whereas storage makes that part of the process effectively instant and is much cheaper than increasing processing power in both cost and energy.

So basically in this use case and many like it: it makes sense if you’re trying to pick what to optimise, you optimise for lower processing and higher storage requirements rather than vice versa.

The history aspect is more straightforward to understand given the above, if you expect people to care what happened a year ago and want to support that, that data needs to live somewhere

They can happen at the same time, but no, they’re entirely independent

My friend, it’s not nonsense, it’s basically how decentralised communication has to work if you want any reasonable level of recency & history in the data.

Usenet was basically the original and I believe a modern news provider requires something like 50 petabytes of storage to run a 10 year data retention service

“Tim onion” got an irl lol out of me

2010-2012 I’d say

Right wingers always project

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Sadly I don’t think Teletext has been broadcast (in the UK at least) in over a decade

Was gonna say a cushion is probably not the solution to OPs problem, they’re either not using their chair correctly or the chair is bad

That’s really shitty given the expectation set when using a VPN

I was wondering the same, I’ve not had any issues personally

I guess YouTube music?

The problem is that the people with big numbers get to influence the world more

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Once again, Orban says exactly what Putin wants him to say

At some point it becomes malicious to even print what he says

If a country is actively invading another we usually don’t permit them in international sporting events.

The fans should never have been there, they should never have been welcome until the war is over.

Ikr, people clearly have short memories.

I’m sorry that people don’t like it, but it is what it is; denial of this only helps the fuckos using it that way

I’ve just replied to you elsewhere, but dude

This is not censorship

This is one regular person telling another regular person that they might accidentally be doing something racists do as a shibboleth

I didn’t come up with this, they did

I would love this to not be the case, but it’s just naïve to ignore the reality of the shitheads that are out there

Their whole thing is existing in the grey area between harmony and incongruity

This breaks many games