gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThe Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back onlinearstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up11.03Karrow-down15file-text
arrow-up11.02Karrow-down1external-linkThe Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back onlinearstechnica.comgedaliyah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoGithub is a website, controlled by no less than Microsoft lol. A git repo can be spread out like a “blockchain” without the messy validation and coin earnings, maybe that was the intended comparison?
minus-squareAlexanderESmith@social.alexanderesmith.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoCould it be? Sure, I don’t see a technological reason why someone couldn’t build a system like that. Are they now (federated, or blockchained)? No.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoTrue. I’m working on a decentralised sharing protocol, but it uses reciprocal sharing so you’d have to have large storage anyways.
Github is a website, controlled by no less than Microsoft lol.
A git repo can be spread out like a “blockchain” without the messy validation and coin earnings, maybe that was the intended comparison?
Could it be? Sure, I don’t see a technological reason why someone couldn’t build a system like that.
Are they now (federated, or blockchained)? No.
True.
I’m working on a decentralised sharing protocol, but it uses reciprocal sharing so you’d have to have large storage anyways.