I know VERY little about this topic. But it has occurred to me that P2P could vastly reduce the need for insanely sized data centers and, subsequently, the environmental footprint of data.
Yes? If so, why isn't it used more widely? Not a good fit? Practical issues? Commercial interests? Political control?
@terjefjelde the main reason IMO is that it's hard, and by its nature is not getting the development money that centralising models can attract from VCs etc al.
However, things are coming together IMO. Several #p2p projects are coming to fruition, and one of the good impacts of the crypto sphere has been a source of money to support some of this work (cf. #libp2p).
I've been following one, #SafeNetwork for a decade which is close to launching with unique promise (no Blockchain).
This is the wonderful thing about Mastodon: For me it was just a passing thought after a public discourse on electricity consumption, and I can hardly make a coherent argument about it.
But I know that if I express my thoughts on a subject here, there are always smart and knowledgeable people like yourself who can send me down whole new rabbit holes of information. Thanks again!
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