when downloading torrents you have a bunch of seeders and maybe most won’t be online, but some will be. I’m so so tired with services and monopolies. Do you think it would be possible to create an internet where instead of large servers we just have individuals hosting their email service, the communities they like to post in and sharing files. essentially it’s just torrent with email and message board
You are describing IPFS. If you install IPFS, then browse to some IPFS content (like a wikipedia mirror: ipns://en.wikipedia-on-ipfs.org/wiki/), that’s cached on your system, if someone else requests those assets, your computer will help distribute it. You can “pin” content, keeping/seeding a copy.
Is that not what the Fediverse is though? I mean in essence?
You watch Silicon Valley recently? Haha
not recently lol. after doing some research i sadly discovered that crypto has taken a big fat shit on the general publics oppinion of ipfs and proof of replication. filecoin etc. greeeeeeeed is cancer
I’m working on the beginnings of a project which is aiming to do exactly this – I agree; the Fediverse is already a huge step in this direction, but I think it’d be possible to go even further, such that “your content” is often being hosted by your own machine instead of depending on an instance operator somewhere to do it, and I think there would be some big advantages to doing it that way.
Unlike actual mature solutions which others have proposed in this thread, it’s in this very early infancy stage, but I’m working this weekend on the update which was supposed to be ready in “1-2 weeks” 2+ weeks ago.
/c/grits@lemmy.world, grits project discussion / updates
I can think of two projects with this type of idea In mind;
Freenet @ https://www.hyphanet.org/index.html
Threefold @ https://threefold.io
They are both working distributed internet platforms. Threefold is more commercial and has a method to pay you for your bandwidth via crypto currency. Freenet is free speech based and against censorship.
