500M tweets/day (and growing) is 5787 tweets/sec. What is likely TPS for final tweet-txns (typos4evar ;-) of Solana given the contention from worst-case and average user load? Not 50KTPS.
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No such blockchain exists. The scale is daunting: omnicoreagency.com/twitter-statis: 500M tweets/day. This begets centralization and advertising as implicit revenue model. People generally won’t pay in an explicit quid pro quo arrangement; at least no one has demonstrated many will do so.
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right now solana can get up to 50k TPS, which is enough for Twitter most of the time but not always.
but Solana's capacity is also going to grow another few orders of magnitude in the next year or two which should make it almost always able to handle Twitter's load.
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Ultimately though, people don’t truly want censorship resistant platforms. That includes child pornography, gore, and other shit you don’t want to see. You always need people to moderate the content. Even 4chan is moderated to some extent and look at the cesspool of garbage there
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One thing you can do: have it be open but have a governance token that can vote on moderation (and/or temporarily delegate to other addresses) or something like that
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Perhaps at some point but coming up with an incentive structure would be difficult to say the least. And ultimately not really sure whether the base layer ever makes sense for a storage heavy system
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Easy peasy! :-/
Ads require scale + personalization. No dapp (smart contracts only, no endpoint or server s/w) can do that, not even Solana at 50KTPS. 500M tweets/day from 330M users requires something different in kind from dapps.
Enough hype and bold talk. Show measurements.
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The protocol could charge on-chain fees, which could then be paid for by GUIs that host adds if they want
I was replying to "Twitter does ads, you can do the same in a dapp."
Lots of things could be, but let's get back to 50KTPS ideal. What's real under Twitter-like load. Simulate it, estimate it, guess. Don't just shill.
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Brendan, are you thinking of potential lag from running say BAT functions in production if they were nested in a SOL environment (in this case SOL => TWTR)?
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