only if we used bittorrent instead of blossom
- integrated support for primary HTTP sources
- decades of development
- already implemented
- battle tested
- webtorrent exists
Discussion
People have been discussing using BitTorrent for a year and a half but it never went anywhere. Why?
doesn’t get grant money
NIH syndrome
and somehow nostr devs miss obvious solutions
How would that work, you would need to seed your avatar? I think that would be very slow and create even more instability.
HTTP sources exist
Also the slowest part is actually discovering peers. You could publish your own as a list (like relay list) and have other peers be a fallback
I have downloaded things from torrents many times but still don't really understand how they work years later despite trying.
So I would say don't attribute to malice what can be explained by me being retarded.
https://webtorrent.io/ if you want a web demo
it can’t connect to normal BT nodes for obvious reasons (TCP not supported) but you can have bridges
You're trying to reason with a troll
BitTorrent 💜
What is wrong with blossom? I like it and I wanted to implement a php (easy to
Install anywhere) or rust servers (for efficiency)
Dtan.xyz could be leveraged could it not?
This is an interesting idea.
I find files on webservers are more reliable and die less soon than torrents which often disappear quite quickly (no peers). But maybe this is a consequence of there not being good backing of those torrents (as you say there is support for primary HTTP sources).
I think someone should put webtorrent into a client (can't be that hard) and experiment with it.
These HTTP sources do not need to be trusted either
So anyone can become one