Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn’t that be solved by larger pre caching in clients? Of course interaction and authentication should be handled centrally, but media sharing which is the largest strain on servers could be eased by clients sending media between each other. What am I missing? Torrenting seems to be such an elegant solution.

  • Alex
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    41 year ago

    Git is a distributed block chain, from a certain point of view.

    • @PixxlMan
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      21 year ago

      Not in an meaningful sense connected to the technology at all

    • TheOneCurly
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      21 year ago

      Distributed but high trust.

      Zero-trust blockchain tech has no value. There is no such thing as a zero trust system in real life.