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Very cool! I dove in to see how they solve the routing / firewall problem. Turns out you’re relying on the kindness of strangers and a public WebSocket relay.
by twoodfin 7y ago
Very cool!
I dove in to see how they solve the routing / firewall problem. Turns out you’re relying on the kindness of strangers and a public WebSocket relay. Hard to see how they could do any better, alas.
IMO one of the big holes in the architecture of the web is the lack of a standard peer-to-peer “content-addressable routing” protocol, perhaps based on any of a number of distributed hash table schemes. It’d be perfect for something like this.
- noman-land 7y agoFar from a standard but have you checked out libp2p? It's pretty far along as a modular p2p networking util. https://libp2p.io/ https://libp2p.io/
- twoodfin 7y agoExcellent! Yeah, I often daydream about a web where something very much like that had become foundational. Unfortunately, the academic work on DHTs emerged at around the same time as both the stultifying dominance of Internet Explorer and the panic over Napster et al.