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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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[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There are some things such as metadata leakage and the server isn't the best at being lightweight.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I have read that they have improve the metadata leakage. And the server being lightweight is being working on too , on the new version.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly my concerns, also Matrix isn't an open standard, truly standardized. It is way more prone to be taken over by some company or ecosystem later on. For what's worth what is even the Matrix Foundation? Where does the money come from?

[–] uis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Use construct.