Is this being used for fediverse stuff yet?
1y 3mon ago by lemmy.world/u/Thcdenton in fediverse from github.com
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
It is used for PeerTube, it seems from quick web research.
I just saw that! That's really cool. I gotta start exploring that too
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.
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 🤷
Sounds a bit like zeronet that I think is dead now, but was pretty cool when I tried it.
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!
https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/blob/master/docs/faq.md#who-is-using-webtorrent-today
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.