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by gruez 38 days ago
>You probably wouldn't want to host a permanent website from home, although some people do, but you could share a file.

bittorent has been around for decades and nobody used it. They emailed files to themselves instead, or used dropbox. This all happened before the ipv4 shortage and people getting moved to CGNAT.
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lazide 38 days ago
Nobody used BitTorrent? LoL

ISPs had/have whole groups trying to stomp it out.

And it was a nightmare due to NAT even then.

It just got worse with CGNAT.

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kortilla 38 days ago
I think the commenter you’re replying to is pointing out that nobody used BitTorrent for legitimate cases. And that take is sadly correct. Despite having huge upsides, everyone just hosts on centralized CDNs, file syncing services (gdrive, Dropbox, etc).

Even Linux distros push you so direct downloads now rather than pointing to trackers.

BitTorrent only has healthy usage for content that’s untenable to host legitimately.

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lazide 38 days ago
That is because BitTorrent has been targeted so much.

Also, hey now - I have a lot of (actual) Linux disk images, and it works well for that!

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miyuru 38 days ago
internet is used by billions of people, not just you.
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gruez 38 days ago
You sure you don't have this reversed? The average person uses the internet to watch tiktok videos and join zoom meetings, all of which is centralized. The people self hosting their NAS or minecraft server is a tiny minority.
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dijit 38 days ago
> join zoom meetings

no reason this has to be centralised.

in fact, Jitsi uses p2p with WebRTC until a third person joins the call: then migrates the call to be relayed.

A really nice latency win.

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inigyou 38 days ago
maybe because centralised is the only way you can do it
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