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Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by theendisney »

recursivegirth wrote: post #23
elbci wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Thinking about this a little bit... could we use a blockchain ledger as an authoritative source for DNS records? User's can publish their DNS + pub key to the append-only blockchain, signed with their private key. Use a torrent file to connect to an initial tracker to download the blockchain. Once the blockchain is downloaded, every computer would have a full copy of the DNS database and could use that for discoverab…

Its been tried/done but attracted the same audience of investors looking to make a quick buck as opposed to looking to actually make it work.

From what i've seen you need some minimum percentage of makeithappen-ers amoung those interested in a project.

It seems the guy running the extension just left. With minimum influence on the value.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/b-dns/

https://www.coinbase.com/en-nl/price/namecoin

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by r14c »

xd1936 wrote: post #13

Fun! 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…

I think the issue has generally been that web torrent doesn't work enough like the real thing to do its job properly. There are huge bit torrent based streaming media networks out there, illicit, sure, but its a proven technology. If browsers had real torrent clients we would be having a very different conversation imo

I don't remember the web torrent issue numbers off the top of my head, but there are a number of long standing issues that seem blocked on webrtc limitations.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by soulofmischief »

recursivegirth wrote: post #23
elbci wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Thinking about this a little bit... could we use a blockchain ledger as an authoritative source for DNS records? User's can publish their DNS + pub key to the append-only blockchain, signed with their private key. Use a torrent file to connect to an initial tracker to download the blockchain. Once the blockchain is downloaded, every computer would have a full copy of the DNS database and could use that for discoverab…

Look into IPFS and ENS.

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by logicallee »

dang wrote: post #9
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?

[sorry for the weird timestamps - the OP was submitted a while ago and I just re-upped it.]

did the test sites work for you when you tried it? because none worked for me, and for at least two other commenters here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830158

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830183

Re: Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

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Post by davidcollantes »

logicallee wrote: post #34

I tried this, the functional "Functionality test page:" is stuck on "Loading peer web site... connecting to peers". I can't load any website from this. https://imgur.com/gallery/loaidng-peerweb-site-uICLGhK

Yes, none work for me. They either don’t have peers, or the few ones are on a very slow network.
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