• Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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    1 day ago

    you can make very cheap to maintain peer to peer solutions

    you can use a STUN server to discover your public IP and use a method called UDP hole punching to open a port others can connect to. STUN servers are very cheap to run: they don’t actually handle the data; just provide a kind of handshake service in the middle for coordinating

    this is often used for peer to peer video chat etc

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
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      3 hours ago

      I’m sure you can. Do you think that’s what they expect their users to do? Or that it’s something they’re going to facilitate?