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baschtoday at 5:00 AM1 replyview on HN

I guess I’d rather have something approaching bittorrent, edonkey/kad, ipfs, blockchain, webarchives.

You have named networks that are federated together, and people can publish to the networks they are invited to or sign up for. The networks survive even with individual servers go down. Data is cached all over at the edges.

Your version is just way too susceptible to rot, unless you see that as a feature. I see it as most of the good content falling into the ether sooner rather than later.

Also can use people viewing the pages as hosts https://gabe.durazo.us/tech/ephemeral-p2p-project/


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txrx0000today at 5:06 AM

If we decentralize messenging and social media, all of those protocols you mentioned will survive.

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