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  • eee@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I know nothing technical about how the fediverse works, but I can potentially see a bittorrent-like future for the fediverse, with people contributing spare compute power or bandwidth to the network when they’re online.

    • xavier666@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      torrents worked on a massive scale is because

      • it’s a “run and forget” kind of technology
      • not real-time
      • very less resources per user is required
      • a sizable portion (not a lot) of users participated equally

      You can’t expect this from a fedi-powered gyfcat instance