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by Iv 3202 days ago
We have lost it: P2P should have been the future of internet. Instead it devolved into the "connect to a server for everything" cloud system.

Internet should be like ZeroNet: a serverless system where content of interest is shared by its millions of viewers and where servers only use a small amount of bandwidth as backups and initial seeders.

That the wikipedia still needs servers and asks donations yearly to keep them online is a testament to how stalled progress in internet infrastructure is today.