What do you think of serving blog posts, articles, and other sorts of mostly-text files over the BitTorrent protocol instead of HTTPS? The reason is to move everything from crappy domain name registrars, VPS providers and central CDNs to pure peer-to-peer solutions.
@Pixificial
Cheap devices with low specs, and thus developing areas around the world, wouldn't be able to keep up. Centralisation is not inherently bad, and pure peer-to-peer is not inherently good. Generally, federation is the best of both worlds. A single server on a VPS for a single small website is cost effective.
Making DNS lookups purely peer-to-peer is a great idea, though. We ought to support projects like #opennic and break censorship.
@torresjrjr
> Cheap devices with low specs...wouldn't be able to keep up.
In all honesty, they currently cannot anyway, especially with the size of software stack the majority of people are using (Windows, Chrome & heavy JavaScript). Not that I tested it, but I think most devices can handle a transmission daemon (or your BitTorrent client of preference) running in the background for the transfer of static pages, blogs and articles.
> Centralisation is not inherently bad, and pure peer-to-peer is not inherently good.
I disagree, I don't think the existence of any 3rd party benefits anyone but my opinions here don't have strong foundations so I could be totally wrong.
> projects like #opennic
Right! it's nice. Have you heard of YaCy?
> Cheap devices with low specs...wouldn't be able to keep up.
In all honesty, they currently cannot anyway, especially with the size of software stack the majority of people are using (Windows, Chrome & heavy JavaScript). Not that I tested it, but I think most devices can handle a transmission daemon (or your BitTorrent client of preference) running in the background for the transfer of static pages, blogs and articles.
> Centralisation is not inherently bad, and pure peer-to-peer is not inherently good.
I disagree, I don't think the existence of any 3rd party benefits anyone but my opinions here don't have strong foundations so I could be totally wrong.
> projects like #opennic
Right! it's nice. Have you heard of YaCy?
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I'd love to use P2P chat app Briar[1] all the time and for everything, but my battery drains very quickly. Seeding is resource taxing. It's P2P design is impractical and thus unsusable for casual use.
Web engine and Javascript bloat is another topic.
@torresjrjr That's understandable, they are usually highly power consumptive. Though, the reason seeding is computationally exhaustive is not because of P2P shenanigans, but purely because of very high read-write operations running continuously. If you throttle transfer speed, resource usage goes down.
@Pixificial
I have heard of YaCy. Search engine decentralisation is a very tricky thing to achieve. I don't know how effective YaCy is.