I was looking into pear aka hypercore quite a bit in 2022, a lot more than nostr at the time before getting pulled back here.
Pear was previously named Hypercore Protocol and has been around as a research project for a while, with a relationship to Bittorrent.
It uses the Kademila DHT to discover peers on the internet but requires holepunching.
It is worth looking at the internet archive to see the old diagrams before they modified the website to be what it is now.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220704132854/https://hypercore-protocol.org/protocol/#hyperswarm
As for quality of audio/video over keet, its much better than any other app, and also works over VPN.
A lot of hiccups last year caused keet to break on my network but it seems to have been fixed in the last few months.
The quality of experience still needs work, but I'd not dismiss it entirely and keep an eye on what is happening. There are enthusiasts using it on a regular basis.
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2024-03-07 02:32:24
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