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Interesting. Have you heard of Aether though? It seems a lot simpler, but achieving the same result. It's a flood network, I believe.

https://getaether.net/




Hmm. This seems like an interesting protocol.

Not a big fan of the whole mod election approach though. Seems like it might just turn into a constant scramble for power. Still, the front page does seem to imply mods can only sorta block content so it might not be too bad.

Thank you for suggesting this.


Looks interesting. Unfortunately, flooding does not scale, its cost is O(nĀ²) where n is the number of participants. The saddest part is that if they were to switch to a less bandwidth-crippling scheme (such as GossipSub), that would destroy the whole purpose because malicious agents can start soliciting messages, and given there is no premix layer on top, time to reveal your identity is going to start approaching zero.


That scaling argument assumes everyone pays the global network cost per node, which isn't true. Gossip scales because the cost to each participant is O(connections to my node), not O(connections in the whole network), and it's the per-participant cost that gets paid.




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