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ohshit, this looks great @palashkaria/1482329615259803654Permalink Look on archive.org
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so exciting to see a peer-to-peer website like this - provides a useful service, but doesn't actually send data through their servers.Permalink Look on archive.org
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which is great because privacy, but also great because it means you can have a useful service like this, but it is cheap enough to run that it can be done on a volunteer basis, and doesn't need to coalesce a business model around itPermalink Look on archive.org
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unfortunately decentralization is now a buzzword used to attract money to terrible crypto projects, because it is actually cool when it works (and it is increasingly possible for it to work)Permalink Look on archive.org
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I should learn more about WebRTC. feels like that's the hidden force making a lot of this stuff newly possible (at least on the web)Permalink Look on archive.org
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also, while we're talking about free decentralized personal file sharing services: @v21/1473352666264780806?s=20Permalink Look on archive.org
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the big problem with services like this is NAT punchthrough, which is the result of Internet providers not having enough addresses for you to be able to directly communicate with arbitrary other computers.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the fix, depressingly enough, is to have a centralised service that both computers can talk to in order to discover where the other one is. or, for the entire Internet to move to using IPv6, and giving every device a unique address.Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, here's a good read about the history of that (failed) transition, and the way that a commodity market in IP addresses has formed @apenwarr/1482993783285649408?t=3zhIJaOuA2hg3L1i2OsASA&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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here is a blog post which more eloquently says a lot of the things i was saying in this thread robinsloan.com/lab/bad-hosts/ (tl;dr - decentralized services are hard because there's no-one to do the NAT punchthrough)Look on archive.org
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kind of makes me want to get together with some friends & set up a Tailscale network and just... send packets at each other. share files using the file sharing services that operating systems still ship with. host websites that are only up when our laptops are open.Permalink Look on archive.org