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Why isn’t P2P chat feasible for mobile devices? Genuinely curious.

• ajconway 6y ago
  Apps on mobile devices are generally unable to maintain network connections while not in focus.
  • KoftaBob 6y ago
    Is this due to the nature of iOS and Android and them not allowing apps to do that, or is there another limitation at play here?
    • ajconway 6y ago
      iOS does not allow apps to be kept alive in background at all. On Android you can (mostly) keep an app open in background, but you should not, as it affects battery life. Of course, another issue is that no device is always online, so you can't base the system entirely on devices communicating with each other peer-to-peer. You want to at least have supernodes. When you do, it effectively becomes a "dynamic federated network".