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  • You’re being down voted, but a p2p cdn is something that sort of already exists. IPFS is probably the most mature. As far as I know, it’d only work for static content though. It’s also an entirely different protocol so you’d have to use some sort of local gateway or plugin to make use of it.

    I have several vms and dedicated servers that I sort of use as a DIY cdn. No where near as spread out or capable as something like cloudflare, but its also not incredibly expensive to do on a small low performance scale. DDOS mitigation is another story though, generally that is best handled by large networks that can soak up the throughput.







  • How would you verify that an instance actually verified its users? Someone could spin up their own malicious instance, create 1000s of users, and just mark them as verified in the database, and then I don’t think instances receiving updates from it would have any way to know? One instance basically has to trust another instance that it’s telling the truth.

    I do still think some sort of circle-of-trust type of thing could help, but I’d be worried about that getting abused too.