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Readme says "truly decentralised" which is the point, not "not distributed". It certainly is distributed, just not truly. It requires bootstrapping with prefixe

• antocv 10y ago
  Please explain how you would do truly decentralized bootstrapping?
• boramalper 10y ago
  Well, it is decentralised but not truly/completely distributed.[0] I guess a distributed system would allow clients to search the network right from the querying machine instead of a server. The adjective truly meant that you can actually start using it right away. Starting a traditional torrent website/tracker is not hard and there must be open source implementations as well, but the problem is (as in all social systems), they suffer from the trap of initialisation: there is no content because you have no users, and there are no users because you don't have anything to offer them, and so on. magnetico discovers the torrents so it's a truly decentralised solution that you can actually start using right away. [0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centralised-decentralised-distributed.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Centralised-decentra...
• the8472 10y ago
  DHT bootstrapping is an implementation detail, not part of the protocol. You don't need DNS or any dedicated bootstrapping mechanism since any node in the network can be used to join it. You could call your friend and ask for the IP and port of his bittorrent client. So the protocol is fully decentralized. Implementations tend to use bootstrapping mechanisms that rely on an expandable, customizable list of known bootstrap nodes, but this is not essential.