[HN Gopher] Challenges of building a peer-to-peer replacement fo...
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       Challenges of building a peer-to-peer replacement for the web
        
       Author : cropcirclbureau
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2022-07-30 21:51 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | rektide wrote:
       | Im more hybrid oreinted myself. The web is short on more
       | federated apis. That I think we are slowly growing. But in many
       | ways pingbacks are still state of the art, not much advanced.
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       | The other thing we need is some trust/take it with us models.
       | Servers signing their content, local not distributed blockchains.
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       | Federated + pingback + logs. Paul Frazee had some good threads a
       | bit back on kind of replacing distributed but concensus
       | blockchains with local contract logs, where we could inter-
       | transact, but check to see whether someones really being honest &
       | doing the things they said/following their interface's
       | contracts... ugh where was it.
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       | Could well be wrong but I dont see consistent hash rings or other
       | open p2p content stores as being likely to ever scale storage or
       | availability sufficiently.
        
       | superkuh wrote:
       | The web is peer to peer if everyone just runs a static webserver.
       | Back when Opera was still Opera they integrated a webserver into
       | the browser (with a naming system/proxy through Opera). If this
       | would've taken off the human (but not the commercial) web would
       | be a very different place. It still can be.
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       | I host a static nginx webserver from home and just use a text
       | editor to look at my log of POSTS to participate in p2p web techs
       | like indieweb's webmention.
        
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