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.
Authentication and authorization can not be handled centrally if the host performing the actual action you want to apply those to can not be trusted.
Media sharing is mainly a legal problem. With decentralized solutions you couldn’t easily delete illegal content and anyone hosting it would potentially be legally liable.
Bullshit in many countries. Well, I know two of them: USA and Russia. First requires intention, second has explicitly excludes P2P from liability.