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Torrent style internet (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Jumpinship@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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when downloading torrents you have a bunch of seeders and maybe most won't be online, but some will be. I'm so so tired with services and monopolies. Do you think it would be possible to create an internet where instead of large servers we just have individuals hosting their email service, the communities they like to post in and sharing files. essentially it's just torrent with email and message board

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[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, back when nothing was encrypted and all email was trusted. There was peace at the beginning then scammers and spammers found out everything was trusted and started spamming the hell out of everyone.

People would enter credit card info into random web forms what would store the full info in email hosted by that party.

Then fraud became a huge issue, email got dmarc spf dkim checks, websites where mandated to have https, and credit card and private info had laws about safe storage and liability.

There were also a lot fewer users, you could host a simple website for thousands of viewers easy but now scaling for 10s of thousands of viewers if your site is linked from a popular source could easily take you down.

However it is still 100% possible to host your own stuff, the technical know how however is a barrier for most.