P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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Some that we should look at are:

• DC++ Hubs
• TorrentBytes
• TBDev / Early Trackers
• TBDev codebases / PureTNA
• What.CD / PassThePopcorn
• Empornium / BroadcastheNet
• RED (Redacted) / Orpheus (OPS)
• GGn (GazelleGames) / Modern Trackers
• Cross-Seed / Autobrr / BTT

(Ignore the type of content they served)

Each of these iterated on social technologies — and created P2P CDNs.

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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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These created technical and social technologies to create P2P CDNs.

And note that I (also) said "social technologies". The social technologies were as important as the software.

P2P CDNs can hugely reduce the cost of serving files, including videos. (There is a long history of them working.)

P2P CDNs can make serving large files on the Fediverse much more viable.

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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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There are techniques for creating a CDN that can support a community while keeping costs down.

You can trace the history of these techniques back to at least the 1990s.

Broadly speaking, these techniques were use with:

BitTorrent, Private BitTorrent Trackers, and Direct Connect.

I think the Fediverse can and should learn from these techniques, and put them to use.

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P2P CDN for Low-Cost Video and File Delivery

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There are definitely affordable commercial choices for CDNs for smaller sites and home-labers.

But, if you are trying to build a community (with many, many users) — a CDN can become expensive. Even very expensive.

(Electronic Arts (EA) has a whole team that takes up half a floor whose job iis to negotiate pricing from the Akamai CDN company.)

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[Fediverse CDN]

Once you have Fediverse Caching servers — you have the basis to create a Fediverse content-distribution-network (CDN).

A (Fediverse-native) Fediverse content-distribution-network (CDN) could bring a new level of robustness and scalability to the Fediverse — while still maintaining the properties of decentralization, federation, and localization.

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[Fediverse CDN]

One way to increase the robustness of the Fediverse is — to introduce the concept of a Fediverse Caching server.

It (the Fediverse Cachine server) caches stuff from the Fediverse rather than the regular Fediverse servers (that house local users and local content).

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