It seems like the big weakness of torrents is that if the front-end goes down, then no one can get new torrents anymore, making the front-end an obvious target due to its centralized nature. However, has anyone considered making an activitypub-powered torrent tracker/download site? Kinda like a hybrid between soulseek and BitTorrent. The sites in the network all get torrent information from each other so you have a billion front-ends. Good luck stopping that if they all sync their databases together.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DHT has already been around for years.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

I've been running butmagnet for a while. It's def interesting lol

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This might be of interest

Edit:

There are plans to add more curation by adding support for manual postings and federation. That would allow people with similar interests to connect, acting more like a trusted community. However, this is still work in progress.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Bringing back Gnutella.