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How come there isn't more torrent based technology (self.opensource)

submitted 1 year ago by bigboismith to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] Asudox 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently, attempts at bringing back XMPP has been horrible. Some instances have different plugins, which often break things. Some have e2ee some don't. XMPP is great but the current attempts are bad. Matrix is good enough for now.

[–] TCB13 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I believe the worst part of XMPP isn't the instances but the lack of a decent cross platform client that actually supports everything and has a decent UI. For eg. iOS clients are all shit. Without decent clients and push notifications people won't be using XMPP ever.

Matrix is good enough for now.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's wrong with Matrix in your opinion? I found it works fine for chat and group chat. Maybe video and audio calls lack but other than that it works fine.

[–] Asudox 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are some things such as metadata leakage and the server isn't the best at being lightweight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have read that they have improve the metadata leakage. And the server being lightweight is being working on too , on the new version.

[–] TCB13 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly my concerns, also Matrix isn't an open standard, truly standardized. It is way more prone to be taken over by some company or ecosystem later on. For what's worth what is even the Matrix Foundation? Where does the money come from?

[–] uis 1 points 1 year ago

Use construct.

[–] Chobbes 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The iOS clients have gotten miles better in recent years. It’s still far from perfect, but I’m grateful for the improvements.

[–] TCB13 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the best one in your opinion?

[–] Chobbes 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Siskin, but it doesn’t do push with omemo perfectly. Monal does that better.

[–] TCB13 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great, I used Monal a long time ago and it was buggy maybe I'll try it again.

[–] Chobbes 1 points 1 year ago

I stopped using monal in favour of Siskin, but I think it’s gotten a lot better recently too. My problem was monal started sending notifications for every message in every chat room at some point so I uninstalled it. I assume this has been resolved.