The difference with torrent trackers is their index is public and can be mirrored. Torrent sites like 1337x were born out of previously popular indexes (Kickas

The difference with torrent trackers is their index is public and can be mirrored. Torrent sites like 1337x were born out of previously popular indexes (Kickass Torrents, h33t). [0] It's not dissimilar to when a GitHub fork becomes more popular than the original project. [1] To me, the biggest disappointment with web3 is they never cracked "distributed discoverability." It still relied on the old model, of proprietary indexes/marketplaces. I'm way more inspired by the P2P efforts, especially Gnutella's initial attempts at distributed search. [2] Feels like this tech could still be iterated on and improved. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337x 1: http://gitpop2.herokuapp.com/tobi/delayed_job http://gitpop2.herokuapp.com/tobi/delayed_job 2: http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/developer/share/intro.html http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/developer/share/intro.ht...