[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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