Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

@forestjohnson I've been making p2p apps for years and have done consulting for companies that made their own. :)

P2P in web browsers is defs a nono since the browsers security model and browser vendors won't allow it any time soon.

I defs don't mean to say that people shouldn't self host, it's just that that's not where we should stop.

More unmodified browsers these days are getting support for loading sites from IPFS for example.

For NAT stuff holepunch.to and socketsupply.co are good.

@yassernasc@mastodon.social Yeah there's stuff other than Beaker out there these days. Especially with the #IPFS ecosystem. There's IPFS support in Brave Browser and some flavor of Opera, and there's progress in making it available in chromium based browsers like Edge.

There's also my browser @agregore :P

Databases amirite? Really wish I had time to work on siphoning data from dispirate sources into something I could easily process and index.

@yassernasc@mastodon.social Yeah! That's pretty much where I'm planning to go this year. We've got ActivityPub integrated with p2p published static sites. Next we'll be making an AP client that integrates with the social inbox and make specs for identifying AP actors as being p2p-enabled so their stuff can be loaded directly.

@bx Yeah you can set up down left right to different keys. Also analog sticks give you 8 or more directions. Steam's UI for key bindings is really powerful too, you can have key combos and different effects for long presses and double presses and stuff.

Interesting idea for GBA. I've actually been cobsidering ditching my keyboard for a mini bluetooth cobtroller that would fit in ny hand. I currenrly just use it for tiktok scrolling but this 8vim thing might be usful for typing in general

@skryking Yeah big mood. At least these fays relay discovery is automatic and nodes automatically advertise as relays if they have a stable IP so it's a bit less centralized. IPv6 would be v convenient but it's still unavailable to so many regions 💀

@skryking Yeah NAT can be a pain. Have you been keeping up with some of the latest p2p networking stacka that are tackling it? Hyperswarm for example has great hole punching capabilities using DHT peers and IIRC they have a built in relaying thing for peers that can't ve hole punched. Works oretty quickly and reliably too. Only dowbside is it has a strong dependency on node.js so it's hard to embed in non-js apps.

@Neiman@mastodon.cloud Yeah kinda! I think the main things that BitTorrent was lacking is mutability and content discovery/indexing. Folks had started work on that years ago but it sadly stalled since.

Instead of #selfhosted servers it'd be nice if software was #CloudFree and #P2P

Not only should we not ve reliant kn centralized corporate hosting, we should be able to just use whatever devices we have on hand without extra server maintenance.

@ben What are y'all using for your backend? You might be into reusing some of the learnings and tools we've made in distributed.press: https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/distributed-press-social-inbox

@bx Hmmm, the steam keybinding thing would require you to make a bunch of "modes" that you would navigate through so it'd be a bit annoying to do all of them.