Semisol 👨‍💻 on Nostr: the more you think about it the more you realize bittorrent is a better choice than ...
the more you think about it the more you realize bittorrent is a better choice than blossom
first, you can exclusively use web sources, and it does parallelization for you, and verifying the file
add peers and you now have censorship resistance that’s better
one big problem with blossom is that you have to download the entire file to make sure it’s actually valid
so if there’s a 1 hour video uploaded that takes 3GB at 8Mbps you need to download the entire thing or else any blossom server can tamper with it
first, you can exclusively use web sources, and it does parallelization for you, and verifying the file
add peers and you now have censorship resistance that’s better
one big problem with blossom is that you have to download the entire file to make sure it’s actually valid
so if there’s a 1 hour video uploaded that takes 3GB at 8Mbps you need to download the entire thing or else any blossom server can tamper with it