#OCaml peeps, how would #Irmin work as the backend for an #ActivityPub powered social network? 
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Looking at the descriptions, it seems it'd be either the worst or the perfect fit, but I can't figure out which 😅
The plus point is ActivityPub is all about distributed databases and edit history and posts that shouldn't be duplicated. But social media is also about privacy rights, including the right to be forgotten—so is that something the history-preserving Irmin can easily handle? 📜
@badrihippo social media and privacy in the same sentence? Why not just accept that it us all public and act accordingly?
@badrihippo hmmm ...
By the way, storage seems to be a big issue with fediverse servers, so I was thinking that the backend using something like ERIS for storage might help reduce data duplucation across servers.
@tetrislife haven't heard of it before, but yes reducing duplication would be awesome! I was hoping Irmin would do something similar since it's based on Git principles; the downside is all revisions would be stored too. There didn't used to be that many revisions but I think now there are...
@tetrislife that's for users to do, but software still needs to comply with the GDPR and stuff...