I think a ready-to-use peer-to-peer network component for service discovery would help a lot. Something like Bonjour/Zeroconf on the LAN, only for the whole int

I think a ready-to-use peer-to-peer network component for service discovery would help a lot. Something like Bonjour/Zeroconf on the LAN, only for the whole internet. A lot of apps and services don't really need to be centralized, eg. messaging, file sharing, online games... But the problem is that writing peer-to-peer networking code is difficult, so people just set up a central server. If there was a ready-to-use library that people could just use, a lot of devs would probably consider that. Would make scaling a lot cheaper... (unfortunately everyone just talks about blockchains nowadays, and isn't interested in solving old problems)