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Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn't that be solved by larger pre caching in clients? Of course interaction and authentication should be handled centrally, but media sharing which is the largest strain on servers could be eased by clients sending media between each other. What am I missing? Torrenting seems to be such an elegant solution.

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[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The software landscape for XMPP isn't the best. I twisted the arms of my immediate family and have them using XMPP messaging with a Snikket server I set up, and we've had lots of issues between OMEMO support and the lack of good messaging clients for iOS. It works, but it isn't the smooth-out-of-the-box experience that non-techies want/need.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's another reason why I will never buy an iPhone there are no apps available for niche stuff such as XMPP or Managing torrent for my Linux ISO's

[–] bravemonkey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Do you download ISOs directly on your phone? If not, lots of clients have web interfaces that make it trivial to manage from any device with a browser.

[–] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I use Monal on iOS and it’s worked quite well so far. I admit I just joined the XMPP adventure.