I only have limited experience with web development, but this tech seems super useful for hosting on any decentralized platform. Could this be used in place of a CDN? Would love to hear what you guys would use something like this for.

EDIT: I missed the faq with a list of projects that use it. That list has some really cool, useful services i might start using!

https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/blob/master/docs/faq.md#who-is-using-webtorrent-today

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It is used for PeerTube, it seems from quick web research.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I just saw that! That's really cool. I gotta start exploring that too

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It theoretically does but in practice, it doesn't really. More information here. For some reason peertube decided to roll their own webtorrent alternative instead of build upon webtorrent 🤷

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Sounds a bit like zeronet that I think is dead now, but was pretty cool when I tried it.

https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

Could this be used in place of a CDN?

The idea has been raised a few times that this could be a way to get longer videos on the Fediverse

Cinetimes uses it to stream what it claims are public domain films but, looking over the offerings they may be playing a bit fast and loose with that definition.

EDIT: I missed the faq with a list of projects that use it. That list has some really cool, useful services i might start using!

https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/blob/master/docs/faq.md#who-is-using-webtorrent-today

So there is a Hubzilla plugin. I don't know what I'd do with it but it is interesting to see.

PeerWeb sounds intriguing. You could have truly decentralised web sites.