@fastfinge@interfree.ca@delta @pixelate @clv0 Yeah, I would consider the modern web one of those non-optimal designs resulting from extending protocols in ways they weren't intended. Now we get cookies and javascript and no privacy. And DHT has a bootstrap server, yes. But it's easily changed. And even if it goes down, existing nodes can still connect and route messages. And everything doesn't go through the root server. If I'm sending my friend sitting in my living room with me a 3 gig file, I'd rather that not go through a mail server, fast or otherwise. And it has all the problems of Mastodon: if you get banned from your mail server, now you have to update your chat address. DHT doesn't have that issue, either.