The whole internet requires that any connection traverses numerous switches and routers. Unless you're pointing a microwave antenna at the destination to deliver your packets, the distinction here is pointless.
To be fair to the grandparent poster, who was downvoted, in the decentralized networking community there are protocols designed to be robust to different hardware setups, like over wifi or other ad hoc systems. Depending on tor from that perspective might be seen as restrictive.
Cwtch isn't made specifically for the decentralized networking community. The properties of a globally-usable, decentralized, and private system are almost entirely at odds with the constraints of decentralized networking. Making such a system robust against network partitions and latency and keeping your IP/location private while still being truly decentralized (and not federated) is an incredibly hard—and perhaps unsolved—problem.
The whole internet requires that any connection traverses numerous switches and routers. Unless you're pointing a microwave antenna at the destination to deliver your packets, the distinction here is pointless.
To be fair to the grandparent poster, who was downvoted, in the decentralized networking community there are protocols designed to be robust to different hardware setups, like over wifi or other ad hoc systems. Depending on tor from that perspective might be seen as restrictive.
Cwtch isn't made specifically for the decentralized networking community. The properties of a globally-usable, decentralized, and private system are almost entirely at odds with the constraints of decentralized networking. Making such a system robust against network partitions and latency and keeping your IP/location private while still being truly decentralized (and not federated) is an incredibly hard—and perhaps unsolved—problem.
My first thought as well, since tor is built around the idea of bouncing connections around the network.
But "p2p" still makes sense, if we just consider tor a black box.
So nothing on the internet is peer to peer, since you have to go through ISP’s network of routers?
Your ISP sees everything. It might not be able to interpret and filter everything though.
Try traceroute google.com for example to see (some) of the hops your data packets are going through.