There may be a resurgence of this kind of thing as people use social heuristics to decide if any given creator is likely to be producing generative content or not.
A project I've been experimenting with, Bison Relay, makes strides in this direction. It's a p2p platform that offers zero knowledge communications with end-to-end encryption, so messages are seen only by their intended recipients. It integrates with the Lightning Network. Each message involves a microtransaction as a spam prevention measure, and users also have the opportunity to monetize their content in a simple way... our internet now is "free" only because we ourselves are the product, as we know!
In its current form it's like a Telegram + Twitter and soon it will have sites and "eBay" like stores, all completely p2p
check out its github or website, you need an invite to join tho RN
https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/14/Bison-Relay-The-Sovereign...
https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/09/Trapped-in-the-Web/
https://blog.decred.org/2022/12/02/What-is-wrong-with-Decred...
Latency matters less when it’s all run locally and can even be done predictably with local ai for many scenarios. That with local application rules that get verified by whoever is peering through/with you on a app.
Another part that I came across as a separate inquiry of possibility was kind of a OS on top of such a structure where you wouldn’t need anything than a “terminal” as all your computers are on a virtual machine overlay. It’s be interested to have every possible computation be hashed so once it’s done it just need to be retrieved so you can treat all peers as a type of addressable memory to not only information but computation and data.
It’s something I wanted to build but then I lost motivation because I can’t possibly be sane or unique now can I?