[sdan]

It's weird to think P2P is becoming all the craze for "privacy" while it's the backbone of the internet: it is p2p. It's just nowadays its more of P2(big cloud servers)2p; which could be a good thing depending on who you ask and your usecases.

[sktrdie]

I always thought maintaining servers was silly since BitTorrent already proved we can achieve higher bandwidth throughput using lots of clients communicating together.

But p2p is more about the network connectivity than whether the node is an Amazon server or a mobile phone. The normal Web for instance does not build on this network nodes capabilities. We need more apps that build these kind of collaborative and self-sustainable networks

[skohan]

I mean it works in the use-case where you have a single file version everyone is hosting, but it gets a lot more complicated when you’re talking about dynamic content doesn’t it? For instance how would you synchronize all the content on a hacker news thread between all the clients?