#cooltechfromthepast — Public Fediverse posts

Looks like Flatpak discovery will move from one mostly generally accepted hub to a gazillion of repos since the performative LLM complaints have befallen the possible single hub. (Partially half-understandable arguments, partially performative fluff for my taste)

Which is ok as it triggers competition that might lead to better outcomes. (bazaar vs cathedral and all, rite? 😏 )
And removes a possible single point of failure.

Now what I'd like to see is an approach that does discovery of those repos and enables search across those repos without a single point of failure. As e.g. a single, centrally hosted index for repos to register to would be.

Flatpak already uses a reverse-dns-namespace structure internally. Anything that would leverage that? Wouldn't help with enumeration though.

Something something DHT/Gossip/...? (as the cool thing from the past)

Clearly a problem that will arise with more of the expectable decentralized systems that need uniform discovery and search.

What's the Fedis wisdom on current academic approaches that might be interesting around this?
Or bastardized routing tech, yet another idea on how to twist DNS into a pretzel, etc? Dare I say: Blockchain (as the unpopular thing before the LLMs 🤣 )

Throw you best Arxiv posts etc. at me. I'm just curious about the state-of-the-art techn for now, all smirk and sarcasm aside.

#discovery #search #decentralized #routing #dns #fedimeta #flathub #dht #cooltechfromthepast #llm #selfhosting #fossdrama #spof #singlepointoffailure #arxiv #academicchatter #academic #computerscience

Looks like Flatpak discovery will move from one mostly generally accepted hub to a gazillion of repos since the performative LLM complaints have befallen the possible single hub. (Partially half-understandable arguments, partially performative fluff for my taste)

Which is ok as it triggers competition that might lead to better outcomes. (bazaar vs cathedral and all, rite? 😏 )
And removes a possible single point of failure.

Now what I'd like to see is an approach that does discovery of those repos and enables search across those repos without a single point of failure. As e.g. a single, centrally hosted index for repos to register to would be.

Flatpak already uses a reverse-dns-namespace structure internally. Anything that would leverage that? Wouldn't help with enumeration though.

Something something DHT/Gossip/...? (as the cool thing from the past)

Clearly a problem that will arise with more of the expectable decentralized systems that need uniform discovery and search.

What's the Fedis wisdom on current academic approaches that might be interesting around this?
Or bastardized routing tech, yet another idea on how to twist DNS into a pretzel, etc? Dare I say: Blockchain (as the unpopular thing before the LLMs 🤣 )

Throw you best Arxiv posts etc. at me. I'm just curious about the state-of-the-art techn for now, all smirk and sarcasm aside.

#discovery #search #decentralized #routing #dns #fedimeta #flathub #dht #cooltechfromthepast #llm #selfhosting #fossdrama #spof #singlepointoffailure