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Ask HN: What's new being done with P2P?

17 points by Nesco ↗ HN
I am under the impression that crypto took the spotlight to almost anything P2P related in the past decade. Besides crypto, is there new being done with?

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siamese_puff
WebRTC is still a hot area. P2P is awesome and definitely not dead, been around forever and will be around forever.
wmf
IMO P2P is mostly incompatible with laptops/phones but Veilid is trying to bring it back.
mab122
IMO That is because we got used to always on, always watching, always working apps / services that run "somewhere" not on our devices. Even in selfhosted open source alternatives most of the applications expect to be run continously.

Example: Google Photos, vs LibrePhotos vs Google Picasa - the last one only worked when you wanted it to work not 24/7

Sean-Der
P2P broadcast is interesting. Send your video to two users, then they send it to two more. Makes things affordable.

P2P VPN I also like. Users connect directly instead of routing all traffic through relay.

Charon77
IPFS is still going strong with the file sharing.
nik736
Does anyone have experience with P2P Livestreaming via WebRTC? Is it reliable?
metaketa
I am impressed with LiveKit; using it to stream AI agents