• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    Or you make it like a traditional website with an API used by people making frontends, but the backend (the database) is decentralized, just like regular websites but instead of having a bunch of servers owned by AWS it’s just a bunch of people providing storage space on their servers.

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        8 hours ago

        What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

        What is the incentive for people to share files via peer to peer networks?

        What is the incentive for people to host Minecraft servers?

        Need me to go on?

        If in your mind the only incentive that people have to host instances is to have power over it and its users then they’re exactly the kind of people you don’t want to see hosting instances.

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          8 hours ago

          What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

          I liked the community that had built up and wanted to help that continue.

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            Well, in a system like I’m talking about, adding your server and storage space in the mix would make the whole thing more reliable and add to the storage capacity so more content can be hosted/backed up, just like paying for a second server to host a website allows to store more stuff and to start creating backups. You would still help build the community (the website), you just wouldn’t have an administrative role outside of the communities you would want to moderate.