It’s kind of silly, but I still really dig the idea behind torrenting and peer to peer sharing of data. It’s cool to think about any old computer helping pass along some odd bits & bytes of data, whether a goofy drawing or strange story.

  • HarriPotero@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    PeerTube uses Webtorrents to offload hosting of hueg files.

    Odysee uses something similar to do the same. (At least they claim to, but last time I took a dig at it it seemed to be hosted “regularly”)

    Spotify famously had their own p2p-thing going in their desktop apps in the early days. Saved them a pretty coin back when hosting was expensive.

    Coming to a browser near you is IPFS.