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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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I don’t understand the concept of peer to peer in this scenario. Isn’t lemmy essentially peer to peer?
Bit torrenting is an example of peer to peer. Blockchain theoretically works this way too.
No, each user is a “peer”, in Lemmy they access content through the instances.
They are talking something more like IPFS.
I don’t really know much about IPFS, but I think a downside to peer to peer is the potential for content to disappear because someone turns off their computer or quits whatever application. I can’t be the only person to have a torrent stall at 80% because the rest isn’t available in the network.