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Well, while I normally tend to have a kneejerk visceral reaction to blockchain tech these days, this looks to be something that would actually make sense/benefit from a blockchain based system. I'm certainly intrigued by it, but a couple of issues I can already think of:
From a user perspective: As you'd mentioned, it would rely on people being connected to it already, and people already have a very difficult time with the onboarding process of Lemmy
From a developer perspective: You'd most likely need some sort of library to handle communicating over this protocol, since none of the major (or at this point, I'd assume any of the) operating systems won't support this natively. This means that not only does the server side of Lemmy need something to handle this, but any client-side apps (whether on PC or mobile) would also need a way to handle speaking over this protocol
From a server admin perspective: I'm not too sure about this one, but I wonder what the resource usage would look like for a protocol like this? Right now, its very easy for instance admins to just pickup say a $5/very cheap VPS from and get up and running. I feel like the resource overhead of the protocol alone would make this a bit more difficult to get started. That's just my guess though.
So handshake definitely looks interesting in general, but unless it really takes off and becomes incredibly mainstream (which I'd love to see - I'm all for decentralized tech) I think it would only result in more negatives than positives.