Last I checked IPFS has some real bandwidth problems, it uses enough at idle and everyone just accepts it, so it's mostly only usable through gateways for normal people, meanwhile BitTorrent has had full P2P for years with a very efficient DHT.
Which is still really cool, but there's only a few free pinning services and they don't have a very good UI.
I think what we really need is semi-P2P, everything still hosted on centralized servers, but you can choose more than one and your identity isn't tied to either, and with cache-ability through other servers. Then you can still pay with fiat money, you can still kick individuals off your server, you can still choose to use free youretheproductware, and most importantly you can use community servers without it just being madness to invest too much time.
Either that, or we git-like fork-able and mergable forums with all content creative commons like Wikipedia. Old forums were amazing for community building.
Thank you! And yes, it works fantastically well. I've not had any luck getting buy in from OTF or similar for example, because it's too broad. Because it's a technical overhaul, it doesn't target any specific interest groups. Here's the pitch https://gist.github.com/anacrolix/41bd6cc60869b4ee86b8f086d1...
Which is still really cool, but there's only a few free pinning services and they don't have a very good UI.
I think what we really need is semi-P2P, everything still hosted on centralized servers, but you can choose more than one and your identity isn't tied to either, and with cache-ability through other servers. Then you can still pay with fiat money, you can still kick individuals off your server, you can still choose to use free youretheproductware, and most importantly you can use community servers without it just being madness to invest too much time.
Either that, or we git-like fork-able and mergable forums with all content creative commons like Wikipedia. Old forums were amazing for community building.