Talking about twitter like uses, I am really curious how a content curating algorithm would be implemented on a decentralised multicast network.
These kind of algorithms have been a major point of attraction to that kind of platform (twitter, instagram, tiktok), as people want content that is broader than their ‘peer group’ but still filtered to their personal preferences. On 11 March 2024 17:19:06 CET, carlo von lynX <l...@time.to.get.psyced.org> wrote: > > >This implements (1) from what I can see, and thus only reduces the amount >of data distributed a bit, but not the challenge of distributing >stuff to millions of recipients in a Twitter-like use case. > >> - The multicasting part looks very interesting. Can you expand on how that >> would work in a distributed network like gnunet? Because it specifically >> mentions a server solution which we cannot afford here: >> >> > In PSYC <https://about.psyc.eu/PSYC>, by contrast, the server will contact >> a set of servers, which will forward the news to another set of servers >> each, until all the recipients receive the news > >A multicast routing layer has been in the plans for GNUnet since before >we first came asking, which was around 2009. Research has been made on >how to do this, but there is no implementation as yet. > >In GNUnet, nodes would efficiently set up distribution trees to get all >data to everyone who needs it. If done properly it can handle Twitter- >and even television-like use cases with millions watching the same video >stream. The current status quo is that these distribution trees are >implemented within the cloud, thus you only get to enjoy their strengths >if you surrender your cookies to them and join the cloud hegemoths.
