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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I know nothing technical about how the fediverse works, but I can potentially see a bittorrent-like future for the fediverse, with people contributing spare compute power or bandwidth to the network when they're online.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    torrents worked on a massive scale is because

    • it's a "run and forget" kind of technology
    • not real-time
    • very less resources per user is required
    • a sizable portion (not a lot) of users participated equally

    You can't expect this from a fedi-powered gyfcat instance

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