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Peer-to-Peer and the Promise of Internet Equality, Phil Agre, 2003
"The peer-to-peer movement understands that architecture is politics, but it should not assume that architecture is a substitute for politics. Radically improved information and communication technologies do open new possibilities for institutional change. To explore those possibilities, though, technologists will need better ideas about institutions."
Is there a good reference of #activitypub scaling with more users/clients, servers, content exchange, network topology etc. What happens when everything and everywhere is connected?
Looking for a more or less rigorous *model* to compare and contrast with e.g., how #atproto and #p2p protocols scale (at least in theory) and put some mathematical meat behind the recent "message passing" vs "shared heap" discussions.
Have been looking for this with little success so time to #askfedi #askfediverse
#deltachat community milestones:
Dec 2023: first #chatmail server
Feb 2024: iOS push notifications
March 2024: ETH Zuerich #security analysis
June 2024: Instant onboarding on all clients
Nov 2024: #P2P #webxdc realtime and home-screen apps
Dec 2024: rPGP #security audit, 20 known #chatmail servers world-wide
Jan 2025: new #webxdc store, UI integrated app-picker, webxdc push notifications.
Spring 2025: is coming :)
money used: ~600K EUR, a tiny amount compared to other messengers.
Even before the arrival of #atproto was the question of what #decentralization of the web means quite murky, with multiple competing protocols at different abstraction layers. As frequently said, at one level the web is already decentralized so envisaging pure #p2p is also conceivable, why the need for #activitypub (or whatever) "servers"?
We come to realize that the problem is not well defined. First of all it does matter what you assume about the distribution of silicon and networks...
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#gnu #linux running in a #webxdc in #DeltaChat with TCP/IP wired up with DeltaChat's in-chat realtime #p2p communication 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Here comes a longer blog post where we share our insights, learnings, research and design of p2panda's group- and message encryption for p2p applications!
I have to say it again.
#PairDrop is amazing.
https://pairdrop.net/
And looking their FAQs, seems pretty reliable... #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Secure #Security #P2P #WebRTC #ZeroTrust #Windows #Linux #MacOS #GNU #LibreSoftware #Sharing #GPL #nodejs #PWA
https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop/blob/master/docs/faq.md
Contributing Guidelines:
https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
#Donate
https://buymeacoffee.com/pairdrop
#tools #webtools #favs #recommendations
Streaming's great for providing access to a vast music catalog. That is until the platform restricts or removes access to songs, albums, artists. What they can't take is my archive of mp3s from a quarter century ago ... just sayin'! Arrrrr ye matey!🏴☠️🦜
New video! Build #sendme into you app:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4cAkRTMT8
#filesharing with #iroh, #p2p
i just had an extremely galaxybrained #p2p idea - so ingress bandwidth is free/cheap compared to egress on various cloud providers. for this #bittorrent archival tracker website i'm writing, how dope would it be to be able to provide a list of URLs to some dataset/website/etc., the server then streams that data, hashes it, discards it, generates a torrent file with the common domain as a web seed... and then the rest of this site kicks in where you have people who follow torrent .rss feeds with seedboxes to autoarchive them.
https://codeberg.org/sneakers-the-rat/sciop/issues/31
Content warning Tech history - WASTE, an early, decentralized P2P protocol
In 2003, Justin Frankel (from #Nullsoft, developer of #WinAmp) released a peer-to-peer file sharing application called WASTE. This is actually slightly after the initial release of BitTorrent. WASTE is named for a motto in Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49. The acronym WASTE stands for We Await Silent Tristero's Empire. It's a term used by an underground postal service. Their symbol is a crude, stick figure image of a horn with a trumpet mute in it.
WASTE as software did more than just allow file transfer. It had chat built in. Like the Fediverse, it's decentralized. However, the networks don't necessarily connect to each other. You would need an in with someone else to join a WASTE network.
Almost as soon as Justin published it, the company that owned Nullsoft (AOL) pulled WASTE back and said that Justin hadn't been authorized to distribute the software so the GNU GPL license it had been released under wasn't valid.
WASTE has been reimplemented a number of times with new features and protocol changes that, in some cases, aren't cross compatible with other WASTE implementations. According to a Sourceforge page, Blackbelt WASTE had its most recent update on 2025-01-27, hinting that WASTE is alive and in operation today.
(This toot owes an obvious debt of gratitude to Wikipedia for the particulars. I had the WASTE software, but never used it beyond opening it. I read The Crying of Lot 49 but it's hard to know whether I read it before Justin released the software.)
People like to say "email leaks metadata" but consider this: Delta apps do not store group metadata (memberlists, group names, avatars, keys) on servers. By comparison,
- #matrix stores group metadata unencrypted on home servers and replicates it to other federated matrix servers
- #signal stores encrypted group metadata on Amazon cloud servers
#deltachat uses a #p2p messaging model for encrypted group metadata where servers function as transport only.
So I just saw Canada had cancelled their $100m starlink contract and it made me think again about mobile p2p WiFi. At one time this was a popular debate for providing Internet connectivity in rural/remote areas. What happened to the "device to device to device" approach ?
Eg this kind of thing: https://medium.com/@compscidr/the-first-true-peer-to-peer-p2p-network-the-mobile-mesh-cbc2e77e51bf
