A large number of Americans generally seem to grow up with a main character complex thanks to all the individualist & jingoist propaganda people get bombarded with over there.
The search for something "exotic" as you put it is just an ego-driven search for the piece of evidence that they are, in fact, more special and unique than everyone else.
AI "tools" like this are an absolute piece of piss to create, and they are also the kind of thing that bro investors love to throw money at currently
Do you guys still do the hilarious chip & sign thing or have you finally switched to using a PIN?
Huh, didn't know I understood German
Edit: oh I just made OP's joke again
Wait Casio make TVs?
I disagree, I cannot see why people dislike those parts—the tension is fantastic in both
Essentially for something to be decentralised and not ephemeral, everyone needs a copy of the data.
To go into a bit more detail—one of the biggest benefits of decentralised systems is generally redundancy has to be built in otherwise you have a Single Point Of Failure™️, and then you get data loss when it's gone. Given any sensible decentralised system is designed to avoid this scenario, that data has to be somewhere, and generally the simplest and less expensive (in terms of processing) way to improve on data in one place, is to have it in every place. Any time the data isn't in one place or every place, you then have an exercise in figuring out where it actually is. This "finding it" processing is going to take time and effort, and if you imagine a standard semi-popular lemmy post, that's potentially data coming from all sorts of different places, which may or may not be there—this would inevitably make request times ridiculous and basically no one would use it.
At the end of the day, any kind of processing is energy, cost & time expensive, whereas storage makes that part of the process effectively instant and is much cheaper than increasing processing power in both cost and energy.
So basically in this use case and many like it: it makes sense if you're trying to pick what to optimise, you optimise for lower processing and higher storage requirements rather than vice versa.
The history aspect is more straightforward to understand given the above, if you expect people to care what happened a year ago and want to support that, that data needs to live somewhere
My friend, it's not nonsense, it's basically how decentralised communication has to work if you want any reasonable level of recency & history in the data.
Usenet was basically the original and I believe a modern news provider requires something like 50 petabytes of storage to run a 10 year data retention service
"Tim onion" got an irl lol out of me
Right wingers always project
This would make sense if Steam didn't exist and is arguably the most consumer friendly of the storefronts
And if people weren't increasingly choosing to not shop in brick & mortar stores anyway. The big high street game retailer in my country has mostly transitioned to being a nerd-culture merch shop rather than somewhere that actually stocks any games other than the Sims, CoD or EAFC.