> Who pays for the hosting of ActivityPub and Matrix instances?
And
> What if one instance abuses other instances too much? How do you prevent it?
Simple, they get blocked by other instances?
How cryptos change anything to these three questions?
> Oh, look at that, Nextcloud and Sia announce "cloud storage in the blockchain"
That just means Sia wrote a Nextcloud integration for their stuff and somehow nextcloud decided to showcase this integration. That doesn't mean Nexctloud has much to do with blockchain stuff. Nextcloud integrates with anything and its dog.
> What if some spammer abuses Nexcloud?
What kind of spam are you imagining and how do you think crypto coins are going to solve this? You don't use cryptos for this, you use good old system administration and in particular antispam systems, which don't use coins.
> You are totally ignoring the part that people need to get paid for storing stuff, and at the same time the payment needs to happen automatically.
We're not.
First, they don't always need to, some people run stuff out of advocacy for instance.
Second, getting paid with regular money is not an unsolved problem, there are plenty of options, many of which also coming with some builtin guaranties against fraud. It's literally how the whole world works. Now, I can't say I'm a huge fan of our financial system but that's a social issue in need for a social solution, not a technical one.
I'm stopping here, it's pretty clear that I won't get a solid, reasonable argument in favor of cryptos here. And that since your top comment is flagged to death, nobody reads us anyway.
And
> What if one instance abuses other instances too much? How do you prevent it?
Simple, they get blocked by other instances?
How cryptos change anything to these three questions?
> Oh, look at that, Nextcloud and Sia announce "cloud storage in the blockchain"
That just means Sia wrote a Nextcloud integration for their stuff and somehow nextcloud decided to showcase this integration. That doesn't mean Nexctloud has much to do with blockchain stuff. Nextcloud integrates with anything and its dog.
> What if some spammer abuses Nexcloud?
What kind of spam are you imagining and how do you think crypto coins are going to solve this? You don't use cryptos for this, you use good old system administration and in particular antispam systems, which don't use coins.
> You are totally ignoring the part that people need to get paid for storing stuff, and at the same time the payment needs to happen automatically.
We're not.
First, they don't always need to, some people run stuff out of advocacy for instance.
Second, getting paid with regular money is not an unsolved problem, there are plenty of options, many of which also coming with some builtin guaranties against fraud. It's literally how the whole world works. Now, I can't say I'm a huge fan of our financial system but that's a social issue in need for a social solution, not a technical one.
I'm stopping here, it's pretty clear that I won't get a solid, reasonable argument in favor of cryptos here. And that since your top comment is flagged to death, nobody reads us anyway.