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The "Fediverse" is close, but I think we need to go a step further and build a community of self-hosted, peer-to-peer services. While federation is a great firs
by tomphoolery 7y ago
The "Fediverse" is close, but I think we need to go a step further and build a community of self-hosted, peer-to-peer services. While federation is a great first step, it still requires _someone_ to manage a server of N users...
- neiman 7y agoThe problem with pure peer-to-peer, is privacy. While now only one server knows what you do, in a peer-to-peer it changes to almost everyone who are connected. You can can indeed improve privacy, but it normally means giving up speed (like Tor). Additionally, there are other issues of p2p as a main solution. For example, phone battery or often being blocked in routers of public spaces etc. I think that a mix between Fediverse and P2P would be nice. A power user can choose to be a node, knowing the price. But the common user would use some server/service to access it. But those must be planned such that switching is easy.
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