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Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by embedding-shape »

Seattle3503 wrote: post #59
embedding-shape wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we still have the same blocker as we had back when WebTorrent first appeared; browsers cannot be real torrent clients and open connections without some initial routing for the discovery, and they cannot open bi-directional unordered connections between two browsers. If we could say do peer discovery via Bluetooth, and open sockets directly from a browser page, we could in theory have local-first websites runn…

If a tracker could be connected to via WebRTC and had additional STUN functionality, would that suffice? Are there additional WebRTC limitations? > they cannot open bi-directional unordered connections between two browsers. Last I checked, DataChannels were bidirectional

Yes, but it's STUN that sucks. If the software ships with a public (on the internet) relay/STUN server for connecting the two clients, it won't work if either aren't connected to the internet, even though the clients could still be on the same network and reach each other.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by IhateAI »

4nonverbal-alit wrote: post #65

I wonder if these colors are a kind of a watermark that are hardcoded as system instructions. Almost all slopware made using claude have the same color palette. So much for a random token generator to be this consistent

Yep, and I refuse to use sites that look like this. Lovable built frontend/landing pages have a similar feel. Instant lost of trust and desire to try it out.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by jychang »

embedding-shape wrote: post #64
Seattle3503 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a tracker could be connected to via WebRTC and had additional STUN functionality, would that suffice? Are there additional WebRTC limitations? > they cannot open bi-directional unordered connections between two browsers. Last I checked, DataChannels were bidirectional

Yes, but it's STUN that sucks. If the software ships with a public (on the internet) relay/STUN server for connecting the two clients, it won't work if either aren't connected to the internet, even though the clients could still be on the same network and reach each other.

That seems like a nonissue for the purposes of this discussion though, in terms of user uptake. Tiktok and Facebook and other websites aren't exactly focused on serving to people on the same network.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by jmercouris »

Timwi wrote: post #56
littlecranky67 wrote: post #44

Cool. Some people complained about broken demos, I uploaded the mdwiki.info [1] website unaltered and seems to work fine [0]. MDwiki is a single .html file that fetches custom markdown via ajax relative to the html file and renders it via Javascript. [0]: https://peerweb.lol/?orc=b549f37bb4519d1abd2952483610b8078e6... [1]: https://dynalon.github.io/mdwiki/

Why is it called MDwiki? It's clearly not a wiki.

Sure, in a sense, but “wiki” actually just means “quick”.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by karanSF »

4nonverbal-alit wrote: post #65

I wonder if these colors are a kind of a watermark that are hardcoded as system instructions. Almost all slopware made using claude have the same color palette. So much for a random token generator to be this consistent

Emojis on every line are an AI tell. The times I do use AI (shhhh...) I always remove them and tweak the language a bit.
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