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Preventing enshittification of platforms rests on credible exit for users and devs. and are not perfect but

a) are implemented und understood by many players,

b) enable freedom of choice of servers and clients,

c) implement as well as self/community custody

Many projects promise to remove servers but often promote and depend on a single implementation stack, have no spec and no interop among islands, and thus struggle to provide credible exit.

peer-to-peer networks that worked
core challenges, routing, and privacy

https://www.draketo.de/software/p2p-talk
: https://www.draketo.de/software/p2p-talk.pdf

This 90 minutes talk describes how peer-to-peer networks managed to
interactively search 4 million computers with the bandwidth of 2004,
which goals they failed to reach, and what information the networks
expose as part of their operation.

Part of the title slide: From Gnutella and Kademlia Over BitTorrent To Freenet/Hyphanet ☺ Those who don’t learn from the tech of the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes — with less time and brain share, since “the problems are already solved”.

What's the state of the art for this problem? Specifically if you have an app on multiple devices and you want to e.g. keep its config-file continuously in sync across them. I know there's a bunch of new -first companies doing interesting stuff but i'm not familiar enough with them.

xkcd 949

Sarah Grant teaches her "Radical Networks" course again at NYU Berlin (on the picture you can see her show cool packet radio stuff) and yesterday I was invited to talk about local-first networking and p2panda as a guest.

For the students I've prepared this little tool "meshpit" you can check out here: https://github.com/adzialocha/meshpit/

You can run it on multiple computers (and they can be even somewhere else on the internet). If you send meshpit's UDP server some data, it'll appear on all the other machines, like this it's possible to combine meshpit with anything else, as long as it speaks UDP.

It also supports sync, so you can catch up on past messages, ready to build your "eventual consistent" database 😛

A group of people standing around an telescopic antenna, outside in a park. It's already dark and people use smartphone lights to see something. In the background one can see the sundown. The antenna is connected to some radio gear and a laptop.

Hey is there any or publicly supported content-addressable storage () solution? (Other than , which I am aware of.)
The problem is that I eventually would want a (few) small binaries to be available "in perpetuity", i.e. not some specific content hosting service. The idea being that if that binary-exact file performs an important function, I'd like it to be hard to become unavailable or disappear.

★ 23.01. 20:00 - 22:00 ~ p2p-berlin meetup

We meet to talk about new developments and personal experiences with peer-to-peer software that allows us to build local or global networks that we own ourselves. This event is not about cryptocurrencies but any other creative, inspiring, or playful use of tech.

Please RSVP using the link below (its free) so we can send you an email if anything changes ahead of the event.
> RSVP: https://pretix.eu/p2p-berlin/1/4325908/

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