knightly [none/use any]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why haven’t we seen a peer-to-peer (P2P) social media platform yet?English
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14 days agoBittorrent is best for static data, building it into a p2p social media protocol would be pretty hacky and would scale poorly unless it was only used for sharing media content.
What you’re looking for is a friend-2-friend network with onion routing, that way you only connect directly to people you trust and messages for others get passed along to the recipient through the f2f network.
“Nuff said”
I was maybe 14 before I figured out that “Nuff” is a shortened form of “Enough” rather than someone’s name. XD