im working on a decentralized messaging app and generally up until recently i thought in such a system, if a peer is offline, you cant send a message… it wouldnt be “decentralized” if there was some central queue of messages.
it took embarassingly long, but then it hit me… git… just regular git is a decentralized database.
in my setup i need the ability for others to be abe to read and only i should be able to write to it. that functionality is out-the-box in git.
git is also pretty standardized so there are many providers if users want to move away from Github.
the storage requirements for my project are fairly small. typically small text messages. the data itself thats publicly readable would be encrypted.
There is a Repo size limit on GitHub and Codeberg, sorry to say. It’s definitely only in the MB. If you go over the size limit then there is a grace period followed by a deletion.
That would be acceptable. I can limit it to only text messages.
The aim would be for it to be able to use a generic git backend. Perhaps the advice I give should be to self-host a git server.