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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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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Quite a few systems use torrent style distribution.

Heck, even Windows uses a distributed bandwidth system where you can set it to download chunks of updates from local networked systems.

All technologies, like bittorrent, nonSQL databases, blockchain, AI and the like become used as an invisible part of systems once the idiotic hype about the technology wanes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Except blockchain solves no useful problems so you will never find it behind anything that isn't explicitly using it for marketing.

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

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

[–] PixxlMan 2 points 1 year ago

Not in an meaningful sense connected to the technology at all

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