Yes I know they’re getting DDoSed, I’m just messing around

  • erasebegin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This seems to be a serious downside to this system. Anyone who values a persistent profile is putting their precious data in the hands of some random instance that may or may not go bust in the near or (perhaps worse) distant future.

    I’m on lemmy.world because it’s the most likely to survive

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        1 year ago

        I’d love there to be a Trust on first use signed user record and a DHT of associated servers that would allow profile references to point to the most recently made user profile with the same key as the oldest one.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah that would be ideal. That way if one instance is temporarily down you could still use your account.

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      1 year ago

      This seems to be a serious downside to this system. Anyone who values a persistent profile is putting their precious data in the hands of some random instance that may or may not go bust in the near or (perhaps worse) distant future.

      Isn’t this the downside to any system reliant on remote operators?

      For any truly valuable data, the solutions remain the same, keep local copies, create backups, and store some backups offsite. As-is it seems like perhaps too many people rely strictly on offsite solutions as their singular data store, which is as bad practice as only having local backups, tbh.

    • elfahor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Why would one need a persistent profile though? This isn’t Mastodon, here accounts are throwaway, just like on Reddit