Snowflake IDs in Mastodon (and Unique IDs in the Fediverse more generally)
shkspr.mobi
Computer Science has two canonical “hard problems”: cache invalidation naming things off-by-one errors Let’s talk about how we name unique items in Federated services – for …
  • seahorse [Ohio]A
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    2 years ago

    This could all be solved a lot more easily if every server minted each post using a Proof of Work transaction against a centralised BlockCha… sound of gunshot

    lmao