Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn’t that be solved by larger pre caching in clients? Of course interaction and authentication should be handled centrally, but media sharing which is the largest strain on servers could be eased by clients sending media between each other. What am I missing? Torrenting seems to be such an elegant solution.
To me blockchain just means merkle trees. I know that’s not how everyone else defines it, I’m not trying to start a debate, but tools like git use that technology as well. (Not that Bitcoin invented them or anything.)