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Why not work towards a decentralized model instead, webrtc is a good start.
by cmdrfred 10y ago
Why not work towards a decentralized model instead, webrtc is a good start.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoAlso, IPFS anyone?
- the8472 10y agowebrtc is a fairly bad start because it cannot establish connections to known endpoints (think address:port) or speak multicast for local neighbor discovery in a p2p network. it generally relies on a signalling server or at a minimum on an exchange of one-time session tokens the user could enter for each connection. it's not distributed and barely decentralized. it's more geared around a client-server approach where some of the traffic is offloaded to peer-peer connections. compared to protocols like tcp and udp it's incredibly crippled