vinney on Nostr: Why do all the recent excellent p2p products seem to have an allergy to servers? I ...
Why do all the recent excellent p2p products seem to have an allergy to servers? I have multiple devices, one of which may be an always-on "server". This is a valid peer, and a much more useful one than other categories of edge device which are often offline or have bandwidth and battery constraints.
Once we agree that an always-on, hardwired device is obviously useful, and that individuals should own these wonderful personal servers, we can start to use these terrifically useful things to personally serve our own edge clients.
And since we now all have always-on personal servers, why not just peer those together instead of our edge devices (which we already saw are flaky).... What a better pattern!
A network of peer to peer rock-solid personal servers, providing private client experiences to our silly edge devices.
Sometimes the peer to peer crowd gets a little too high on its own supply wrt what a "peer" is...
Once we agree that an always-on, hardwired device is obviously useful, and that individuals should own these wonderful personal servers, we can start to use these terrifically useful things to personally serve our own edge clients.
And since we now all have always-on personal servers, why not just peer those together instead of our edge devices (which we already saw are flaky).... What a better pattern!
A network of peer to peer rock-solid personal servers, providing private client experiences to our silly edge devices.
Sometimes the peer to peer crowd gets a little too high on its own supply wrt what a "peer" is...