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It's the same old problem of trying to build a peer-to-peer social network. How do you ensure that large files are distributed correctly and quickly with minimal security implications in an environment where nodes are constantly joining and leaving the network? Perhaps it's possible, but if it were an easy way of doing it, there would be more of that sort of thing around.


> How do you ensure that large files are distributed correctly and quickly with minimal security implications in an environment where nodes are constantly joining and leaving the network?

The owner of a project will keep a node always online to fight its own churn. There is no big files in the case of issue tracker. This is not video social network. Also, video social network do work, e.g. private trackers, the only thing is that they use the web publish magnet links which can be done over a DHT cf. PPSP and tribler.




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