Comment by bastawhiz
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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.