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 queryin

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...