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[-] eee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I know nothing technical about how the fediverse works, but I can potentially see a bittorrent-like future for the fediverse, with people contributing spare compute power or bandwidth to the network when they're online.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

torrents worked on a massive scale is because

it's a "run and forget" kind of technology
not real-time
very less resources per user is required
a sizable portion (not a lot) of users participated equally

You can't expect this from a fedi-powered gyfcat instance

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