• el_abuelo@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if someone can come up with some kind of distributed storage that isn’t insanely slow. Kinda like a CDN but on personal devices. I’m thinking like SETI@HOME did with distributed compute.

    Edit: this is kinda like torrents but where the contents are changing frequently.

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      1 year ago

      You should look up IPFS! It’s trying to be kinda like that.

      It’ll always be slower than a CDN, though, partly because CDNs pay big money to be that fast, but also anything p2p is always going to have some overhead while the swarm tries to find something. It’s just a more complicated problem that necessarily has more layers.

      But that doesn’t mean it’s not possible for it to be “fast enough”