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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 2 months ago
But it can enable streaming video sharing, faster than torrents. This is more than a nostr based wormhole, this is like.a cross between Napster and torrents, since you can advertise your files to the network. Kind of like a public seedbox. You'll see once the UI is up 😛
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Ryan ryan@downisontheup.ca 2 months ago
That will be necessary for video. A sizable video going viral shared from a home connection would quickly cripple the host. You'll need a way to pull chunks from various hosts and assemble them in the client. This is how torrents work, dividing the file into chunks, and hashing the chunks. Then clients can request the needed pieces from any host on demand.
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Ryan ryan@downisontheup.ca 2 months ago
I'm not sure I understand though, "hash it and index it" is pretty vague. Say I host a video from my PC. Someone else views it, through a web Interface I'm assuming. What happens on the viewer's end to duplicate the file and contribute to the swarm? Is it automatic, or do they have to download and mirror the file manually?
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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 2 months ago
So when the uploader uploads it the client can hash the file and use a nostr index like h while advertising so that we can search for it with nostr filters. When someone is viewing a file we can search the network for who else has the same file, and even request for specific chunks from other peers. We're already chunking files in the PoC but its a little finicky.
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Ryan ryan@downisontheup.ca 2 months ago
It can be the best idea ever, but if no clients integrate it doesn't matter. Even if only *some* major clients don't integrate it's probably a lost cause, because people won't use it due to lower reach. This happens often with Amethyst building in features, but damus & primal are nowhere to be seen. I wish you luck though.
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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 2 months ago
Thats how protocols work also thats what I like about the spec I've proposed here it can go from something as simple as a wormhole over nostr to a full blown torrent replacement. The clients can chose the complexity they wish to implement. TBH im just going to spec it out and only build out the parts I need for formstr. The rest I may or may not build upon when I have time.
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ABH3PO abhay@formstr.app 2 months ago
I know my fair share about clients not adopting my useful specs (polls) 🤣 So now I only build stuff that would atleast be useful for me regardless of other clients adopting it.
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