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Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn't that be solved by larger pre caching in clients? Of course interaction and authentication should be handled centrally, but media sharing which is the largest strain on servers could be eased by clients sending media between each other. What am I missing? Torrenting seems to be such an elegant solution.

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[โ€“] mark@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel the same way about RSS feeds. It's a technology meant to keep up with updates on nearly anything across the internet. Even social media sites. It's been available for ages. But no one is pushing for sites to provide them. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] TCB13@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That's why I use FreshRSS.