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Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
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Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#102In the past ZeroNet was performant enough to realistically share websites but it's abandoned (ZeroNet Conservacy exist but no active peers seems to exists) this allow client to use an website without installing anything, which is nice, but how to get things visible initially it's well... A human challenge...
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#103Napster.. so what happens if peerweb.lol goes down?
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#104connection overhead is way too much for modern world.
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#105I can't imagine that Peerweb has much in the way of stopping certain types of material from being uploaded.
you can't stop someone from verbally describing certain objectionable material, therefore we should regulate the medium thru which sound travels and suck up all the oxygen on the planet. it's the only way to save the children
You're so right! I had never thought of that! We should remove all moderation everywhere, everything should be legal everywhere all the time! /s
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#106Every time I try these they never work, including this one. I’m not sure what the value prop is over just using a torrent client? Maybe when they’re less buggy they’ll become a thing.
I'm planning to eventually launch an open source platform with the same name (peerweb.com) that I hope will be vastly more usable, with a distributed anti-abuse protocol, automatic asset distribution prioritization for highly-requested files, streaming UGC APIs (e.g. start uploading a video and immediately get a working sharable link before upload completion), proper integration with site URLs (no ugly uuids etc. vis…
This sounds really interesting, do you have any more info or a repo to follow?
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#107Every time I try these they never work, including this one. I’m not sure what the value prop is over just using a torrent client? Maybe when they’re less buggy they’ll become a thing.
Well this is supposed to load a website in the browser like a "normal" website (doesn't work for me, stuck on "Connecting to peers...").
Just using a torrent client means that you have to download the website locally with a torrent client, and then open it in your browser. Most people wouldn't do that.
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#108I have been intrigued by WebTorrent for a while. From my experience downloading Linux distros over Torrent, I know that it works really well when many people contribute.
But I have never had a successful experience with WebTorrent, presumably because it is less popular and I have never found a use-case where enough peers were sharing?
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#109Fun! I wish WebTorrent had caught on more. I've always thought it had a worthy place in the modern P2P conversation. In 2020, I messed around with a PoC for what hosting and distributing Linux distros could look like using WebTorrent[1]. The protocol project as a whole has a lovely and brilliant design but has stayed mostly stagnant in recent years. There are only a couple of WebRTC-enabled torrent trackers that have…
http://bittorrented.com
I had never heard of this! Pretty cool!
Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
What were your plans for advertising website updates? Classic RSS feed or something else?
At the time there was a bit of momentum behind the idea of mutable torrents: https://torrentfreak.com/mutable-torrents-proposal-makes-bit...
Did any mainstream client implement this?