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by bcjdjsndon 33 days ago
> So in the real world a relatively small number of providers.

Why do we even need providers? Locally store the convos on each device and there's not a need for the server.
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echoangle 33 days ago
No normal user wants that. You would still need some infrastructure to link users with IPs, and if you lose your device, all your chats are gone.
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bcjdjsndon 31 days ago
> You would still need some infrastructure to link users with IPs

I thought we cracked this with P2P streaming? I know torrents have trackers but can't we do some kind of multicast kind of thing, completely P2P?

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