• DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Whatever device you’re using to post to Lemmy can easily handle “thousands of transactions per day”. You’re off by several orders of magnitude before transaction processing is a scaling concern.

      CDNs exist to reduce lag and optimize media file delivery. They can be decentralized, and internally essentially are, but having a neutral clearing-house helps solve the “leech” problem that thinks like BitTorrent suffer from.

    • Siru@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 hours ago

      This isn’t entirely true, some of these systems are simply not speed optimized, and even then there still always has to be one source of ground truth.