This is chatroulette for your eyes only

It’s such a cool solved tech problem: Take two arbitrary computers, and open a video link between them without using a lot of server resources in the middle.

And then the problems start…

You can’t moderate the connection, and if you could that would take a ton of expensive resources. You can get feedback, but unless there’s strict user verification (resources!), the abusers can have hundreds of disposable accounts, and someone underage is going to slip in, so there’s the huge moral and legal problems.

It would be possible to make a distributed app, with no central site to take down (think Pirate Bay), but euuurgh, nope nope nope.

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