I recently stumbled upon Keet, which is a peer to peer messaging app with video calls and file sharing.
This app has a lot going for it:
- The user experience is really good
- ~~Free and open source~~ EDIT: the UI of Keet in closed atm, but the underlying P2P building blocks are open
- Privacy friendly (no datacentre, server or middleman between you and the people you are talking to)
- Better quality since there's no throttling of traffic
- No file size limit
I'm baffled that this app seems like a well kept secret, so I just wanted to share it with you guys.
To me, peer to peer technology seems really interesting because it addresses the root cause of many of the harms that plagues the modern day internet: surveillance, platform silos, the market dominance of multi-national tech-conglomerates, energy usage of datacentres, etc.
What do you think? Can P2P be the solution to these problems?
Now this is an interesting idea! We have more computing power and bandwith at our homes than ever before, and use only a fraction of it.
I would happily support Wikipedia, openmaps and other projects by seeding their data.
In could even be more fun and motivating to do, since you could see how you are making a difference in real time, as opposed to donations.