A hybrid p2p look at the OMN

#OMN is not trying to replace servers with #P2P, that’s never been the idea. The interesting architecture is hybrid, where each layer does what it is good at – #P2P isn’t the answer. It’s a tool. Browser-based P2P has hard limits, a browser isn’t a database, phones aren’t reliable servers, people go offline, storage is limited, connections are intermittent. If you build a system assuming every device is always available, it simply won’t work. The path is that #OMN isn’t trying to replace servers, it’s trying to change what servers do. Servers are good at availability, are online all the time, easy to reach. They’re ideal for caching, indexing, discovery, search and temporary message retention. They’re also cheap enough that communities can run them. Trying to eliminate them is mostly ideology rather than engineering. #P2P shines at resilience and autonomy, your phone is your primary editing environment, it stores your drafts, your identity and trust relationships. It can synchronise…