Is this being used for fediverse stuff yet? (github.com)
from Thcdenton@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world on 26 Feb 2025 08:50
https://lemmy.world/post/26071726

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!

github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/blob/…/faq.md#wh…

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Feb 2025 08:53 next collapse

It is used for PeerTube, it seems from quick web research.

Thcdenton@lemmy.world on 26 Feb 2025 09:16 next collapse

I just saw that! That’s really cool. I gotta start exploring that too

Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml on 26 Feb 2025 21:27 collapse

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 on 27 Feb 2025 10:36 collapse

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 on 26 Feb 2025 08:55 next collapse

Sounds a bit like zeronet that I think is dead now, but was pretty cool when I tried it.

github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

Emperor@feddit.uk on 26 Feb 2025 19:08 collapse

Could this be used in place of a CDN?

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.

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!

github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/blob/…/faq.md#wh…

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.