How come there isn't more torrent based technology
Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn't that be solved by larger pre caching in clients?
Of course interaction and authentication should be handled centrally, but media sharing which is the largest strain on servers could be eased by clients sending media between each other. What am I missing? Torrenting seems to be such an elegant solution.
You seem awfully smart to not have the common sense required to foresee something as obvious as "what happens when you have CSAM getting automatically distributed to and by thousands of users?" Seems like that one scenario alone is a nightmare and that's just one it took 5 seconds to imagine
You aren't wrong, but his question seemed genuine. There's no reason to be hostile about it. Learning and genuine curiosity shouldn't be a crime on the Internet.