Post #3093662
2026-03-26 18:27 UTC
Support nodes are nodes which are "more online than others", which can hold onto your data for a while so everyone can download it from there when nobody is online.
This is similar to DeltaChat's Chatmail Relays or MeshCore's Room Servers. The trick here is to encrypt your data fully, so no meta-data is leaked whatsoever before storing it on a support node.
Applications should not bother about what's going on here, they just want to add / remove support nodes and manage access to them.
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@p2panda@autonomous.zone 2026-03-26 18:27
Alright! This is it and was probably the longest post we've ever made. Phew. Maybe it got a little bit clearer now where p2panda sits: We don't manage schemas, databases for fast queries of your application data or offer any fancy CRDTs for you, all of this are higher-level concerns for us, we just make sure your messages arrived securely and as privately as possible across any type of p2p network.