Ask HN: What's new being done with P2P?

[Nesco]

I am under the impression that crypto took the spotlight to almost anything P2P related in the past decade. Besides crypto, is there new being done with?

[siamese_puff]

WebRTC is still a hot area. P2P is awesome and definitely not dead, been around forever and will be around forever.

[Zambyte]

Radicle is pretty interesting: https://radicle.xyz/

It's a P2P source forge similar to GitHub or Gitlab.

[Sean-Der]

P2P broadcast is interesting. Send your video to two users, then they send it to two more. Makes things affordable.

P2P VPN I also like. Users connect directly instead of routing all traffic through relay.

[metaketa]

Radicle, LiveKit, https://iroh.computer/

[wmf]

IMO P2P is mostly incompatible with laptops/phones but Veilid is trying to bring it back.

[mab122 → wmf]

IMO That is because we got used to always on, always watching, always working apps / services that run "somewhere" not on our devices. Even in selfhosted open source alternatives most of the applications expect to be run continously.

Example: Google Photos, vs LibrePhotos vs Google Picasa - the last one only worked when you wanted it to work not 24/7

[nik736]

Does anyone have experience with P2P Livestreaming via WebRTC? Is it reliable?

[metaketa → nik736]

I am impressed with LiveKit; using it to stream AI agents

[Charon77]

IPFS is still going strong with the file sharing.