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Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by dtj1123 »

elbci wrote: post #2

I don't get it, I upload my files to your site, then I send my friends links to your site? How is this not a single point of failure?

This isn't my site, nor do I have any opinions on the implementation here. I do however find the idea of serving web pages via torrent interesting.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by elbci »

dtj1123 wrote: post #5
elbci wrote: post #2

I don't get it, I upload my files to your site, then I send my friends links to your site? How is this not a single point of failure?

This isn't my site, nor do I have any opinions on the implementation here. I do however find the idea of serving web pages via torrent interesting.

p2p storage as in torrent or IPFS or whatever is the part that we kinda' solved already. Serving/searching/addressing without the (centralized) DNS is still missing for a (urgently needed) p2p censorship resistant internet. Unfortunately this guy just uses some buzzwords to offer nothing new - why would I share links to that site instead of sharing torrent magnet links?

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

#7

Post by dtj1123 »

elbci wrote: post #6
dtj1123 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This isn't my site, nor do I have any opinions on the implementation here. I do however find the idea of serving web pages via torrent interesting.

p2p storage as in torrent or IPFS or whatever is the part that we kinda' solved already. Serving/searching/addressing without the (centralized) DNS is still missing for a (urgently needed) p2p censorship resistant internet. Unfortunately this guy just uses some buzzwords to offer nothing new - why would I share links to that site instead of sharing torrent magnet links?

You make a good point.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by toomuchtodo »

elbci wrote: post #2

I don't get it, I upload my files to your site, then I send my friends links to your site? How is this not a single point of failure?

IPFS [1] requires a gateway unfortunately (whether remote or running locally). If you can use content idents that are supported by web primitives, you get the distributed nature without IPFS scaffolding required. Content is versioned by hash, although I haven't looked to see if mutable torrents [2] [3] are used in this implementation. Searching via distributed hash tables for torrent metadata, cryptographically signed by the publisher, remains as a requirement imho.

Bittorrent, in my experience, "just works," whether you're relying on a torrent server or a magnet link to join a swarm and retrieve data. So, this is an interesting experiment in the IPFS, torrent, filecoin distributed content space.

[1] https://ipfs.tech/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29920271

[3] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

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