Mindful of recent developments in the world, is there any technology to distribute hosting, so the data is shared between many small peers around the world and requests to a site are load balanced across all or some of them and split over "safe" geographies? For common good sites like Wikipedia, The Internet Archive, that sort of thing?
Surely I'm not the only person to have thought of this 
Boosts for reach gratefully received 
Best part? Direct P2P transfer with full encryption. Your files never touch third-party servers.
Takes just 5-10 mins to set up. If you juggle files between devices, give it a try!
(2/2)
"Syncthing" is a game-changing open source tool for managing files between devices without any cloud servers or third parties. Perfect for PDFs I don't want in the cloud!
My simple setup:
• Phone → Syncthing → Computer
• One-way sync (deletions stay on computer)
• Background sync via WiFi
The workflow: download PDF to phone → appears on computer → delete from phone.
That's it! (1/2)
Anonymity in #P2P networks? Why not? Overlay networks like #I2P protect user privacy, preventing surveillance and reducing the risks of censorship. But they’re slower due to encryption and complex routing.
#divaexchange
I published my first two dweb apps for #Autonomi today. Just to github for now but I'll be publishing dweb properly in a few days, maybe Sunday, then I'll write about it all.
Simple, but still useful demos, not least of how easily an very low skill web dev like myself can build #p2p stuff in Svelte.
That's two apps in a week, while building the API they need into #dweb - in fact that was almost all the work.
filepizza
Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser
https://github.com/kern/filepizza
We've just released p2panda version 0.3.0!
This release introduces a network events stream, filesystem persistence and many other minor fixes and improvements.
You can read more in our "Event Streams and Persistence" blog post:
https://p2panda.org/2025/03/11/events-sqlite-0.3.0-release.html
When it comes to free software, do you side with Mario or Luigi?
https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-2967-cd97-ca39-077917417855
@lvk we always had a decentralized model for group membership but the prior implementation had several edge cases that would result in difficulties to effectively leave groups, and other issues. The new implementation is based on extensive simulations and tests, before it was implemented and released, putting to rest systematically all #P2P group membership issues that occured in the last years. Group membership consistency is also important for end-to-end encryption security.
Decentralizers, attention! :)
Last #deltachat releases introduced stable #p2p group membership not found in any other messenger. Members can add/remove peers also while being offline, and when everything comes online again, everyone has the same consistent membership view. We formalized and ran a simulation model using #TLA+ (invented by Leslie Lamport of vector clock fame):
https://github.com/chatmail/models/tree/main/group-membership
and a complementary #pytest model with more corner cases tested here:
https://github.com/chatmail/models/blob/main/gmc/test_gmc.py
VPN Providers Consider Exiting France Over ‘Dangerous’ Blocking Demands
February 24, 2025
In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to compel large VPN providers to support their pirate site blocking program. The aim is to reinforce existing blocking measures, but VPN providers see this as a dangerous move, leading to potential security issues and overblocking. As a result, some are considering leaving France altogether if push comes to shove.
exit
Copyright holders see pirate site blocking as an effective and proportional tool to combat widespread online piracy.
Over the years, courts and lawmakers in dozens of countries have agreed, resulting in a patchwork of blocking regimes around the globe.
Initially, these efforts focused on residential ISPs as the key intermediaries. While these companies were not blamed directly, they were the go-to parties to implement blocking. That proved insufficient, however.
More recently, DNS resolvers have been targeted with blocking orders. Since services such as Cloudflare, Google and OpenDNS, can be used to bypass ISP blocking efforts, courts in Germany and France have determined that DNS resolvers should take responsibility too.
Read all:
Peer-to-Peer and the Promise of Internet Equality, Phil Agre, 2003
"The peer-to-peer movement understands that architecture is politics, but it should not assume that architecture is a substitute for politics. Radically improved information and communication technologies do open new possibilities for institutional change. To explore those possibilities, though, technologists will need better ideas about institutions."
Is there a good reference of #activitypub scaling with more users/clients, servers, content exchange, network topology etc. What happens when everything and everywhere is connected?
Looking for a more or less rigorous *model* to compare and contrast with e.g., how #atproto and #p2p protocols scale (at least in theory) and put some mathematical meat behind the recent "message passing" vs "shared heap" discussions.
Have been looking for this with little success so time to #askfedi #askfediverse
#deltachat community milestones:
Dec 2023: first #chatmail server
Feb 2024: iOS push notifications
March 2024: ETH Zuerich #security analysis
June 2024: Instant onboarding on all clients
Nov 2024: #P2P #webxdc realtime and home-screen apps
Dec 2024: rPGP #security audit, 20 known #chatmail servers world-wide
Jan 2025: new #webxdc store, UI integrated app-picker, webxdc push notifications.
Spring 2025: is coming :)
money used: ~600K EUR, a tiny amount compared to other messengers.
