Antsstyle
1 min readFeb 4, 2022

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If you have any recollection of P2P, you'll quickly realise it isn't much use for hosting websites or in fact anything other than random file transfers. Good luck calling that a successful basis for the internet.

"Web3 came to be to provide an alternative" - I hate to break this to you, but not everything that claims to be alternative is actually doing what it claims to. The history of inventions is littered with dodgy creations designed to make money exploiting peoples' misconceptions about an existing problem, and Web3 is one of them. It doesn't solve the problems it claims to solve, it actually makes them worse.

Only a completely incompetent developer, who has zero idea of the history of software or current practices in most of today's software, would think P2P is a viable way to run anything. Games? Almost all run on servers to prevent piracy and many forms of cheating. Websites? Run on servers because trying to use P2P means your website isn't available half of the time, and you can't even guarantee it's the same website. Utility software? Uses servers to prevent piracy. The list of reasons why P2P doesn't work for this use case is practically endless.

At least pretend to have an understanding of the subject before making clearly false statements about it.

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