@mattsheffield @mmasnick I think it’s because so many modern internet users are stuck on mobile or other ISPs that are hostile to P2P protocols - plus discovery has always been hard with P2P, which is why the point of censorship for torrents were always the trackers. I think the way to do this “right” is to implement the relay level as P2P (a nice architecture would be to try and self-organize the network into an expander graph), and let users manage relay lists
@mattsheffield @mmasnick I’ve spent a while thinking about how to implement a censorship resistant social network, and even with something like IPFS as the backing data store you still run into the problem of now your users need pinning services or they have to have an always-on machine somewhere to do it themself
@mattsheffield @mmasnick what’s really needed for censorship resistance is to allow broadcasting encrypted content with decryption keys discoverable via other channels (similar to a distributed Mega) so that the hosting services can’t be liable for the content, since they have no way of distinguishing it from random bits
@mmasnick @mattsheffield (this is one additional argument in favor of using a generic backing store like IPFS)