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Comment by walletdrainer

1 month ago

> How do you make a p2p app that can handle hundreds of millions of posts per day without beefy servers helping?

You design it with those requirements in mind? There’s no fundamental technical limitation at play here.

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walletdrainer

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dboreham  1 month ago

There kind of is: the computers the "p" run don't allow incoming connections and don't allow long lived processes.

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