many home LANs make it difficult or impossible for the average person to operate peer to peer. two people who want to run p2p personal servers with cryptographic identities should be able to send packets directly to each other no matter their DevOps knowledge, LAN setup or ISP's controls.
I totally disagree with you :)
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I think that sounds neat on paper, and I suppose many don't even have home internet now, their device is raw dogged on the (nat'd) open internet.
But home infra as it exists, was designed around the idea that bad actors exist outside, and not inside the walls. That's just how it exists now. I don't think there is a safe way to transition. Home wifi connections, on devices, are generally considered to be known "safe", yes we have profiles on most modern OS (except android still tmk).
I guess I realized I should state I'm sort of against true p2p for many privacy reasons, I've sporadically shared on my timeline. I don't want anything to do with relay outbox implementations and go way out of my way to block them. Because the internet infra, as it exists right now, makes assumptions to offer guarantees that fall apart when you side step them.
> many home LANs make it difficult or impossible for the average person to operate peer to peer.
And I generally think that's a good thing.