Oddbean new post about login | logout only if we used bittorrent instead of blossom - integrated support for primary HTTP sources - decades of development - already implemented - battle tested - webtorrent exists
People have been discussing using BitTorrent for a year and a half but it never went anywhere. Why?
doesn’t get grant money NIH syndrome and somehow nostr devs miss obvious solutions
Is there a repo for it?
huh
Nvm. I'll go look it up.
How would that work, you would need to seed your avatar? I think that would be very slow and create even more instability.
HTTP sources exist
I have downloaded things from torrents many times but still don't really understand how they work years later despite trying. So I would say don't attribute to malice what can be explained by me being retarded.
https://webtorrent.io/ if you want a web demo it can’t connect to normal BT nodes for obvious reasons (TCP not supported) but you can have bridges
PeerTube uses this
Retroshare is a decentalized social media built on BitTorrent: https://github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare
BitTorrent 💜
Dtan.xyz could be leveraged could it not?
This is an interesting idea. I find files on webservers are more reliable and die less soon than torrents which often disappear quite quickly (no peers). But maybe this is a consequence of there not being good backing of those torrents (as you say there is support for primary HTTP sources). I think someone should put webtorrent into a client (can't be that hard) and experiment with it.