**Danny O'B** @mala · 2018-03-28T20:50:31Z

Danny O'B @mala

We in the decentralizing community (he says, pompously) should take a look at what's happening with low bandwidth and micro-CDNs in the world -- here's a good piece by Steve Song about the U-shaped internet: https://manypossibilities.net/2017/03/the-internet-is-u-shaped/

Remembering, the biggest success of peer-to-peer was probably the bandwidth-arbitraging BitTorrent.

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**Nate Cull** @natecull · Mar 28, 2018, 21:04

**Nate Cull** @natecull · Mar 28, 2018, 21:04

@mala

Tips to handle low-speed Internet:

1. Make everything cacheable
2. Make everything cacheable
3. Make everything cacheable
4. No, seriously, make everything cacheable
5. That means no ads or trackers
6. Just content.

**pettter ✅** @pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se · Mar 29, 2018, 09:12

**pettter ✅** @pettter@social.umeahackerspace.se · Mar 29, 2018, 09:12

@natecull @mala Also keep communication local if possible.

**bhtooefr** @bhtooefr · Mar 29, 2018, 09:35

**bhtooefr** @bhtooefr · Mar 29, 2018, 09:35

@natecull @mala And this is where FOSTA gets particularly nasty, as it removes legal protections for caching.

**GCU Prosthetic Conscience** @gcupc@glitch.social · Mar 29, 2018, 14:53

**GCU Prosthetic Conscience** @gcupc@glitch.social · Mar 29, 2018, 14:53

@natecull
@mala
Just content, mostly text.

**Soni L.** @SoniEx2@cybre.space · Mar 29, 2018, 19:32

**Soni L.** @SoniEx2@cybre.space · Mar 29, 2018, 19:32

@natecull @mala web developers don't care.

**Nick Doty** @npd@octodon.social · Mar 29, 2018, 01:16

**Nick Doty** @npd@octodon.social · Mar 29, 2018, 01:16

@mala I wonder if the Signed Exchanges work at IETF would help with these microCDNs. Sites can provide signed versions of their sites for easy caching and delivery by others, either the Google AMP cache or maybe a small CDN device delivered to a rural area.