Risotto Bias on Nostr: "Public trackers are all that can ever exist" Magnet links and distributed hash ...
"Public trackers are all that can ever exist"
Magnet links and distributed hash tables: uh... What?
"DHT content can never be updated authoritativly by the author"
Tor v3 addrs, veilid kv, and torrent BEP-39/BEP-46: hi.
"The server has to be online"
Apt cache, SSB, git: now hold up
Sure you could use DNS as a host but that's not the point. Or using keyservers as a host. There might be a dumb way to use hole punching relays as a host
The directory, rendezvous, shared peers, authors, and readers, don't need to all be online simultaneously (or indeed be a single entity or monogamous relationship) - you only need two at a time to exchange what they know.
Each part in the puzzle doesn't have to solve everything that a centralized site does.
Federation is sometimes so limited in the client server mindset.
Magnet links and distributed hash tables: uh... What?
"DHT content can never be updated authoritativly by the author"
Tor v3 addrs, veilid kv, and torrent BEP-39/BEP-46: hi.
"The server has to be online"
Apt cache, SSB, git: now hold up
Sure you could use DNS as a host but that's not the point. Or using keyservers as a host. There might be a dumb way to use hole punching relays as a host
The directory, rendezvous, shared peers, authors, and readers, don't need to all be online simultaneously (or indeed be a single entity or monogamous relationship) - you only need two at a time to exchange what they know.
Each part in the puzzle doesn't have to solve everything that a centralized site does.
Federation is sometimes so limited in the client server mindset.