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My best guess is that blockchain completely destroyed all the hype surrounding traditional P2P, and things that should be trivial are nonexistent because nobody
by eternityforest 4y ago
My best guess is that blockchain completely destroyed all the hype surrounding traditional P2P, and things that should be trivial are nonexistent because nobody is excited enough to build them.
The real question is why are torrents still the best P2P system around? Why do we not have something like SyncThing but for mass public sharing?
The other thing that happened is new P2P projects aim to replace the current internet entirely, and don't fully take advantage of the fact we can have cheap centralized servers.
I would love to work on a project like this one day. I've done some proofs of concept for similar things, but making something practical and cross platform is a bit too much for one person.
Lately I've been wondering if true P2P is actually the way to go for a real next gen system, or if we should be getting back to a more refined version of the trackers concept.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago> Why do we not have something like SyncThing but for mass public sharing? You do. Share your folder's identifier with whosever you're sharing with.
- eternityforest 4y agoI don't think that would scale that well. For one thing the pairing is 2 way, you have to link to every device individually. And you have to either get things from the original source, or trust the intermediate source, there's no digital signatures. DAT/Hypercore is pretty close, but doesn't seem to have mass adoption yet.