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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 17:03:24 JST iced depresso

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   @dsfgs @CandyDumDub
   > torrenting
   its not so much that its designed for torrents as its a cultural thing. tor doesn't want people doing it because it wastes bandwidth for genuine use (moving intelligence around as the Navy intended) while i2p likes it because it generates a lot of decoy traffic that makes it harder for the NSA to practically correlate traffic.
   
   > social media
   you probably want something like ipfs or tahoe-lafs. ipfs is exactly intended for people who view the content (or cached it recently) to also participate in seeding it. tahoe does something like this, but i think a tahoe store has to be somewhat organized it doesn't really spread a file globally so much as it lets you create a data store where the data is spread around internally.
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     Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters (dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 17:03:26 JST Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters

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     • lainy
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     • Melissa BearTrix 🏳️‍⚧️
     • Candy's Capybara
     • 🤯Matera the Mad🤯

     @CandyDumDub
     We could call this type of thing a #GlutPlug, haha. ^^^

     @icedquinn @matera @lain @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @melissabeartrix

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     Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters (dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 17:03:27 JST Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters

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     • Candy's Capybara

     @CandyDumDub
     Low probability though. They were just online and interacted with it. Its better than no content at all.

     If there's any trouble, client requests another three. At random the server may check to see if those previous 3 are really unavailable, randomly dismissing a user for repeated false reporting.

     The instance then provides people who interacted with it and who are online.

     This can happen seamlessly because content can be fetched that is yet to come into view.

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     Candy's Capybara (candydumdub@ieji.de)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 17:03:36 JST Candy's Capybara

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     • Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters

     @dsfgs Nope, not a good idea. Imagine all those random 3 people are offline at the same time. Chain is broken now

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     Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters (dsfgs@activism.openworlds.info)'s status on Monday, 14-Aug-2023 17:03:37 JST Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters

     Imagine if during times of high network traffic, #fediverse instances only needed to send a hash of the content, basically a #torrent file, to the viewer with a maximum of three, random I2P users who have interacted with the content?

     Now those I2P users would serve the image to the user and not the instance itself.

     This *truely* democratises fediverse.

     The I2P peer-to-peer network is the best fit for this because I2P is designed to move content via #torrenting — Tor is not.

     Good idea?