Jan 21, 2026

Exploring Radicle landed me on Swarm. I’m concerned with the eth- prefix in their domain name, and a mention of blockchain and web3 on the main page. But I like how they managed to build some community and ecosystem around this project. Fun fact: instead of regular documentation, they have The Book of Swarm of 272 pages. I wonder how much of it is AI slop, though.

On the note of automatic distribution of 4KB chunks through the network, I wonder how long before DMCA watchdogs start sending their letters to all owners of a chunk of a copyrighted content. With IPFS and BitTorrent node owner at least controls what content to store and serve.