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How come there isn't more torrent based technology (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by bigboismith@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 11 points 9 months ago

Except blockchain solves no useful problems so you will never find it behind anything that isn't explicitly using it for marketing.

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 25 points 9 months ago

But what if we used AI driven, cloud integrated blockchain to create a hybrid platform for your business needs?

[-] andruid@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Synergy that!

[-] andruid@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Synergy that!

[-] bort@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely-hostile

tldr: there are some legitimate use cases. But not in the first world. And they are unrelated to what crypt-bros are trying to sell.

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[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Git is a distributed block chain, from a certain point of view.

[-] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 3 points 9 months ago

Distributed but high trust.

Zero-trust blockchain tech has no value. There is no such thing as a zero trust system in real life.

[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Not in an meaningful sense connected to the technology at all

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

To me blockchain just means merkle trees. I know that's not how everyone else defines it, I'm not trying to start a debate, but tools like git use that technology as well. (Not that Bitcoin invented them or anything.)

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