Well, crypto and BitTorrent work pretty well

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If I remember the history correctly, bittorrent took a few tries to get right after rethinking other p2p file sharing systems like Napster

Amazing how Satoshi Nakamoto basically made cryptocurrency on the first try 🔥

Okay, total doofus question

Wasn’t Skype p2p before Microsoft bought it?

Maybe partly but with a centralized server for logins and stuff, I think

Just googled it. Skype was initially p2p

So, nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 is inventing the Skype of 2008 😂😂

Skype never quite worked well though

It's very important to reach that point where it just works, so it keeps just working

Maybe the #nostr protocol will make p2p more doable

We should at least have p2p data integrity assurance / clients cooperating to audit relays whenever you interact with a post from a user that's currently online

I’ll pretend I understood that 😂😂

Thanks for explaining the benefits of p2p though