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Most people aren't interested in decentralized peer discover because it doesn't cost much in bandwidth and it doesn't need low latency. AFAIK the only benefit
by Jyaif 9y ago
Most people aren't interested in decentralized peer discover because it doesn't cost much in bandwidth and it doesn't need low latency.
AFAIK the only benefit of decentralized peer discovery is to be resilient to censorship.
- diggan 9y ago> AFAIK the only benefit of decentralized peer discovery is to be resilient to censorship. No, not really. One example where it's not about censorship is offline scenarios, but connected to the same network. If there is a central, upstream server for discovery, you won't be able to find other peers. If the discovery works offline/locally (as with Bonjour/mDNS), you can still find other peers. So it has a lot of value.