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A large majority of web clients must be operating on battery now, too. Willingness to burn battery participating in Torrent and other distributed protocols rath
by pantaloony 6y ago
A large majority of web clients must be operating on battery now, too. Willingness to burn battery participating in Torrent and other distributed protocols rather than HTTP will be low among those, let alone willingness to leave such a thing operating as a daemon in the background. It’s why I don’t see much future for these things (distributed file-sharing protocols) except in infrastructure or in applications where many users may be expected to be on desktop.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoConversely, every home router or NAS can act as a node in the mesh.
- bentcorner 6y agoWith data caps I'm not sure if home users have an appetite for that either.
- rohan1024 6y agoSomeone needs to create an app so awesome that the only way to join it is to contribute to it. Hopefully that will happen in my lifetime.
- indolering 6y agoBut they are highly resource constrained and if there is no direct benefit to the consumer, why throw that in?