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Aral Balkan

Well that sucks: looks like the server I set up yesterday for the Kitten distribution site just got reset. Hetzner had a note on about a fault with new server creations a few minutes ago. Darn it.

Guess that’s me recreating the server from scratch again.

Well, it’s practice I guess but this is the first time I’ve seen a fault of this severity on Hetzner.

@aral oh that sucks. We host many services with Hetzner but never happened to us. We do daily backups to a remote location so we can restore everything but it would suck to have to. At times you forget that these things can hapen

@aral that does seem like a pretty big fault...

@javielico It almost feels like the wrong storage object was attached initially or something. And yeah, quite major.

@aral how about you give the pear runtime a try and maybe some peer to peer integration? 🙂

@serapath @dat_ecosystem Ah right, yes, I was actually excited about Dat several years ago when it was a community project and based some of my early experiments on it (specifically on hypercore, etc.) It made me realise that we don’t need a replicated datatype at the core of a decentralised system. We need a topologically decentralised system and then, if we want, we can use something like that for certain things. But ever since the Tether deal, it’s not for me, sorry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(

en.wikipedia.orgTether (cryptocurrency) - Wikipedia

@aral @dat_ecosystem

dat ecosystem has nothing to do with tether though. There are ~20 projects building on top of dat at the moment and holepunch is just one of them. Every project maintains some of the dat stack modules. It is all open source and we monitor it and it can all be forked any time.

People are working on a rust implementatjin as well wholich is not on par, but kinda here here.

We are happy to see that the holepunch company os giving back by maintaining and contributing to dat

@aral @dat_ecosystem

They have a closed source product called keet, which shows the capabilities of the dat stack.
some channels have thousands of users.

But the dat stack modupes they maintain and contribute to are completely open source and stay that way.

the way dat works, there is no token associated or built into the stack.

modules around the pears runtime are also dat. you dont have to do anything with crypto or tether or any of that.

it would help getting rid of server bottlenecks