Sure. But where do the blobs "come from" when they "come back". Since it's fully P2P,
someone has to keep them around.
As for text not taking up a ton of space. Sure. Except it's text with it's metadata, and possibly text generated by a few hundred people.
A friend and I managed to exchange ~24k messages on Slack over the last 3 years (~4k each / year); using it like some kind of "private twitter" where we would just post anything that might be of interest to the other.
What would it be like if I follow 300 or 1000 people doing the same, over Secure Scuttlebutt?
- At 1 byte per character (from what I've gathered, Unicode characters actually take up 1 to 4 bytes)
- 140 characters / message (because Twitter proved it's usually enough)
- messages' metadata (50 bytes?)
- 4.000 messages / user / year
- following 300 people
We'd get... 228MB / year?
That's actually way less than I expected!
