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I suppose BitTorrent for Images should be a thing (again?) Discussions of decentralization and redundancy always come up in software/system design and developm

I suppose BitTorrent for Images should be a thing (again?) Discussions of decentralization and redundancy always come up in software/system design and development, but we seem to always gravitate to bottlenecks and full dependency on single entities for the tools we "need".

Havoc 4y ago
Good point. A dual system would be ideal. http to ensure coverage, bt to achieve network effects on the popular images. Presumably a few - nginx and what not - have a high %
- magicalhippo 4y ago
  Many (most?) BitTorrent clients support web seeding[1] by a regular HTTP server. A public registry could do web seeding, with bandwidth restrictions if needed, to ensure availability. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Web_seeding
  - zoobab 4y ago
    You could even do some BT freeriding on top of multiple HTTP sources.