1. Why is video conferencing in 2022 still such a disaster?
2. Why is it still so freakin’ hard for me to send a file of arbitrary size to someone?
I’m really getting optimistic about #2. But I worry it’ll be limited to nerds or attacked by established parties using the usual means (like making it impossible on popular devices in the name of anti piracy)
Disclosure: worked on WebTorrent and Wormhole.app
Edit: there’s nothing to set up. Despite what the TLD might imply, there is no app. It. Just. Works. Remind me to complain more about things that have historically sucked.
Say you are using webrtc to do a video call. Now imagine the same thing but with 10000 peers sharing their video. That means each participant has to upload their feed 9999 time while at the same time download 9999 videos from random peers around the Internet, each one with their own bandwidth and latency restrictions and each one doing the same thing as you (uploading and downloading to/from 9999 peers)