0 sats \ 4 replies \ @thrown 12 Feb 2023 \ on: Comparing Peer to Peer Protocols bitcoin
My prediction is that SSB will make a comeback.
The gossip model feels intuitive because it’s how real life works, basically.
And with all the hype about Nostr, SSB is just like running a Nostr relay on the client.
Plus, SSB handles blobs. Really nice and simple that way.
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout 12 Feb 2023
I think our current networks aren't ready for P2P broadcasting blobs to more than just couple people... That's why I like the nostr model of not trying to push binary data through relays.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @thrown 12 Feb 2023
our current networks aren't ready for P2P broadcasting blobs to more than just couple people
What makes you say that? It seems to work on SSB just fine.
Granted I’m sure the blob transfers aren’t as performant as something like BitTorrent
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @nout 12 Feb 2023
My experience with nostr (where you generally have ~200 people you follow and many reposts from other people too...) is that it eats a lot of data on images and gifs, e.g. 20GB per month.
There are probably 1000 users per relay (just guess) and so a relay may need to transfer 20TB per month, which seems prohibitively too much in 2023 for majority of people.
So if the network is only couple people in mostly closed circles, then it's possible, but for more open networks (like nostr), I think the data would become issue quickly and force centralization on only couple relays. And that's why the nostr model, where binary data hosting is done using centralized services, seems reasonable.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @thrown 13 Feb 2023
SSB model is like if everyone ran their own relays though. Your comparison there isn’t quite apples to apples
I do understand what you say about wanting to separate the blobs from the base text though
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