[onetrickwolf]

A reason I have been interested in blockchain is that it seems like a good way to make a decentralized application that could exist beyond the life of the company or person that creates it.

I work in a hobby industry where a lot of community run ledgers are suddenly lost forever due to the death of someone in the fandom (or rarely intentional sabotage or hacking).

Would this be a good use for blockchain or are there maybe other solutions I'm not considering or aware of?

[constantcrying]

A blockchain requires significant, persistent and consistent community effort.

If you can not have one guy taking up the mantle and doing the hosting, how can you get hundreds to do the same?

>A reason I have been interested in blockchain is that it seems like a good way to make a decentralized application that could exist beyond the life of the company or person that creates it.

Community run projects have existed for decades on the internet. They never needed a blockchain to persist. If they died, they died due to lack of interest and effort by their communities. A blockchain can not prevent that.

>maybe other solutions I'm not considering or aware of? IPFS potentially.

[onetrickwolf]

> If you can not have one guy taking up the mantle and doing the hosting, how can you get hundreds to do the same?

Well I mean if you were to use a public blockchain like Ethereum it's likely the Ethereum community wouldn't be going away. I am not thinking about rolling out our own chain.

> Community run projects have existed for decades on the internet. They never needed a blockchain to persist

Unfortunately my experience hasn't really been the same. Community data controlled by a single user can go away pretty easily. If you open up the data and let people host their own database then you don't have a single source of truth.

Our data is largely just a ledger of who owns what with minimal meta data.

> IPFS potentially

Thanks will look into it!

[miracle2k]

This is really interesting, and I'd love to learn more about it. One thing to look into is rollups - they will soon enable custom application with cheap transaction fees, but with the full security of Ethereum. See e.g.: https://docs.celestia.org/category/recipe-book/