@prologic (#cn3kxka) why? Wouldn't that go against the idea of decentralisation?

(#cn3kxka) How so? I mean people that have swung by to "test" and "check" things out, never to be seen again. There are hundreds of accounts on this pod that have never posted a thing. If course OTOH I don't actually know if they ever login and are just idle lurkers/readers...

@prologic (#cn3kxka) It snot a problem now per se, but they do consume key space in memory as the database used for storing things like accounts and who owns what feed and sessions stores its key space in memory.

@prologic (#cn3kxka) I thought the whole point of decentralisation was that there wasn't one single entity controlling things like accounts.

@prologic (#cn3kxka) base64 compress inactive twtxt files)

@prologic (#cn3kxka) that bracket should have been a question mark

@prologic (#cn3kxka) also, some people might make accounts with the intention of using twtxt as a way of communication but then go on hiatus for different reasons. They might very well come back. I know I did. I made my account after seeing this repo on github and went on hiatus due to exams and school. I know I'd be confused if I came back and found my account deleted.

(#cn3kxka) You _have_ to identify yourself as an owner of a feed somehow though? I mean sure I get what you're saying, each Pod _has_ accounts. The decentralised parts are the Feeds and Conversations, not so much the "Users". You have to belong to a Pod somewhere, or run your own. At _some_ point I'd like to be able to carry your "identity" around through a network of pods which I _think_ is there things like IndieAuth can help (_PR not merged yet..._).

(#cn3kxka) Yeap all good points. LIke I said, it doesn't _really_ hurt, it just consumes key space... But that's something I _could_ solve in Bitcask itself as a "technical" level where I evict inactive keys out of the in-memory keyspace and archive them to disk instead only keeping "active" keys in memory for fast lookups.

(#cn3kxka) This is something I want to do anyway for Bitcask so that it can scale almost indefinitely unless your entire keyspace is hot and active all the time! 🤣