If you want to generate interesting questions about decentralization, just stare at how modern BitTorrent works and try to explain why the tech/ecosystem are the way they are. I'm still struggling to construct a full narrative
True. We could still have in-browser decentralized(-ish) search. Another user mentioned BTDigg in this thread. Also Magnetico (https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico …). The previous generation of file sharing did have in-app search, but we just know that is a legal nightmare. Look at PopcornTimepic.twitter.com/nMwuhSC3Ng
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I can't really think of any self hosted app that anyone uses (the best example I can come up with is Jupyter). There isn't very much decentralized stuff that's been done with WebRTC (since most use it with a special signalling server)
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Jupyter is a good example. Electron apps can probably be viewed as in a similar camp just not literally opened up in the browser. You could also build this stuff as standalone frontend apps hosted on IPFS that use local storage aggressively
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It remains to be seen whether a truly controversial app hosted on ipfs won't be successfully taken down from public gateways.
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Yeah, but I think it seems promisinghttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1012545688633106432 …
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@WebTorrentApp is interesting, and popcorn time is built on top of it and for some reason specifically disabled the WebRTC bridging that could lead to an in-browser decentralized popcorn time stuff -
Not following this one, sorry. Who disabled WebRTC bridging?
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The developers of popcorn time. Webtorrent desktop bridges between the torrent and WebRTC protocols, allowing browsers to download torrents. If that were allowed we could build an in-browser popcorn time.
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