Notices by heapwolf (heapwolf@fosstodon.org)

@aral correct, it’s highly nuanced but we have a huge FAQ on the way that includes a lot of maths and models. Even as a (relatively) small network it works nicely already. My whole team can be offline and we still send chats and files reliably. E2E FTW 🙌

@aral also, I think it’s nice to help people set up servers and run websites, but it will always be limited in what people can build. Because cloud costs always scale up with demand.

@aral servers are and always will be landlord-tenant oriented, this is antithetical to a free and open internet. I don’t object to commercial ventures but the fundamental stack must be absolutely free and open. No black boxes. No gate keeping. No rent extraction.

We designed a packet relay algorithm that was originally intended for partition tolerance, however its design also makes it suitable for *significant* partitions (hundreds of hours at the moment)

@aral The number of people who have the money, time, and expertise to run servers prohibits this from ever reaching critical mass. Check out what’s happening recently in P2P, we just shipped https://sockets.sh, that’s step one. This month we’re open sourcing the P2P libraries that make it possible for users to communicate without servers, even if people are offline. No servers == no landlords.