TBH this is nothing new. They already randomly restrict you from viewing any type of nsfw content on the mobile browser version. It prompts you to download the app with no option to close the prompt.
cryball
joined 2 years ago
Same. I just joined like >12h ago, and already there is some activity in channels, that I couldn't find any discussion on a few hours ago.
Very much this. I've got an almost automatic habit of opening reddit when I'm bored and don't have much to do. After a couple of times of seeing that message, I've been searching for the lemmy counterparts for my favourite subs. Turns out a lot of them are getting some steam!
If you were to host the entire forum on a blockchain, every node would have to hold the blockchain. So not scaling horizontally, but instead copying the "database" a bunch of times. Think of hosting all of the data in reddit on a thousand nodes. Sure you could access it from any node, but the database would be just as big as before, just copied around a bunch of times.
In a way this thing is already much more decentralized than a blockchain could ever be, in that every server doesn't hold all of the data at once. Much better use of resources IMO.