Post #443201

servers suck infra sucks ops sucks sysadmin sucks the world needs actually good p2p like yesterday the @modal @p2panda developments are really good, the contacts mockup from fosdem looks super neat. also I think one of the related presentations mentioned the need for a distinction between nodes and clients which I'm really happy to see. we really need p2p systems that don't reveal your IP address directly to everyone by default. we need p2p systems based on explicit consent for everything, but with reasonable defaults and good UI on top of that to make it as easy to use as commercial apps. so much can be done and isn't done yet. I think the p2p "uncloud" of the future really needs the notion of groups of various trust levels to be at its core. Has anyone thought about how to do identity/account recovery without central authorities? I have. I think it can be community-based. Instead of "delegate to email" or "upload government ID" the system can require a quorum among contacts and members of high-trust groups you're a member of to vote on associating a new keypair to the "lost" account. Good UI can be built for that idea.