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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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[–] deur@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I was thinking about the possibility torrent based public repo git clones but that isn't going to pan out.

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[–] neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 1 points 1 year ago

Because it became heavily associated with illegal activity.

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