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Now that I think about it, BitTorrent is the best example of how well decentralisation can work, and basically the only reason I believe that a decentralised we
by WithinReason 5y ago
Now that I think about it, BitTorrent is the best example of how well decentralisation can work, and basically the only reason I believe that a decentralised web is possible.
- hiq 5y agoUnfortunately BitTorrent is still heavily centralized when it comes to discoverability. Without a website hosting .torrent files or magnet links, it's very limited.
- joconde 5y agoThese links are easy to mirror, they probably fit into a reasonably large SQLite file. Since the Web still allows decentralization, that doesn’t seem to be a problem. For example, the pirate bay is blocked in my country, yet I can still consult it on dozens of mirrors.
- account-5 5y agoThere's always tribler https://github.com/Tribler/tribler https://github.com/Tribler/tribler
- bondant 5y agoI'm surprised nobody has build a torrent catalog on bittorrent itself. I think that with the DHT mutable item one should be able to publish a torrent containing a list of torrent with comments and updating the list easily.
- _nalply 5y agoIt's not so simple. The juicy stuff is on private trackers and you can get into one only when invited. So you have a catalog of crap and not much more.
- WithinReason 5y agoNot at all, a DHT crawler can gather Torrent links over time in a fully decentralized way.
- hiq 5y agoWithout curation it's not worth much.
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