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submitted 11 months ago by bigboismith@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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.

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[-] atomkarinca@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

there's https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ but it's not very user friendly.

at least we could try to eliminate the need for tld's.

edit: and there's also https://getaether.net/

[-] thatguyyouworkwith@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

IPFS is the most relevant project for media sharing, there's an in browser JavaScript library that can make all desktop users seeders. Peertube is already encouraged for use as well.

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