I only have limited experience with web development, but this tech seems super useful for hosting on any decentralized platform. Could this be used in place of a CDN? Would love to hear what you guys would use something like this for.
EDIT: I missed the faq with a list of projects that use it. That list has some really cool, useful services i might start using!
https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/blob/master/docs/faq.md#who-is-using-webtorrent-today
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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 1y
It is used for PeerTube, it seems from quick web research.
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I just saw that! That's really cool. I gotta start exploring that too
Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Perfect moment to plug !Peertube@lemmy.world
Growing steadily, and in my opinion, definitely a way to supplement (still far from replace) YT. There's actually some neat content on there by now, from just good to fascinatingly bizarre - but almost always very genuine and authentic. Especially when comparing to some years back, it really has become a proper seed for a platform instead of a novel experiment - but more people interacting with the content and/or supporting the creators would be amazing as the next step.
onlinepersona@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
It theoretically does but in practice, it doesn't really. More information here. For some reason peertube decided to roll their own webtorrent alternative instead of build upon webtorrent 🤷
Anti Commercial-AI license
CAVOK@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Sounds a bit like zeronet that I think is dead now, but was pretty cool when I tried it.
https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet
Emperor@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
The idea has been raised a few times that this could be a way to get longer videos on the Fediverse
Cinetimes uses it to stream what it claims are public domain films but, looking over the offerings they may be playing a bit fast and loose with that definition.
So there is a Hubzilla plugin. I don't know what I'd do with it but it is interesting to see.
PeerWeb sounds intriguing. You could have truly decentralised web sites.