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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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[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The iOS clients have gotten miles better in recent years. It’s still far from perfect, but I’m grateful for the improvements.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's the best one in your opinion?

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Siskin, but it doesn’t do push with omemo perfectly. Monal does that better.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great, I used Monal a long time ago and it was buggy maybe I'll try it again.

[–] Chobbes@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I stopped using monal in favour of Siskin, but I think it’s gotten a lot better recently too. My problem was monal started sending notifications for every message in every chat room at some point so I uninstalled it. I assume this has been resolved.