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Cool website run on a solar powered repurposed smartphone (compost.party)

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What's more solarpunk than using old hardware destined for the dump to host a cool website?

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

years ago I read about a protocol to treat webpages like torrents.

so if a website becomes popular, it'll be accessed not from a main server, but from every who has seen it and cached it.

that would be perfect for "microservers" like this.

what sucks is that I don't remember any specific name for that protocol, so I cant search for it and figure out if it's actually a thing or some vague prototype.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Sounds like Gnunet or sone other P2P system?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

IPFS?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

possibly, sad we are moving towards having like 5 websites, instead of countless small websites.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They're still around, tho:

Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

Edit: In case you don't like surprises: https://wiby.me/

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

PeerTube does this in a way. When you're watching a video, other users can stream it from you directly.

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