I’m sorry this idea is kind of hard to explain. Like if you had a torrent, but every week or so you’d have new interesting stuff to discover from it ?
LIke a “torrent channel” but fully decentralized somehow ?
Maybe you’d just get more torrents to choose from. Large, searchable torrent archives, “this week’s new torrents” ?
What about receiving news video, streams without a website to coordinate it, no gatekeeper except the digital signature of the strangers you trust ?
Like, why isn’t facebook a torrent network ? Why isn’t youtube, just torrents ? Facebook and youtube without having to ask Zuck and Goog for permission ?
It’s called ‘having friends’. I’m told; canmot confirm.
I have never heard of these so-called “friends” and remain on the lookout for an actual technological solution to this problem.
Same. Just something i heard.
I will second this.
I’ve found the only real way to find good media to watch is to talk to others with similar interests and ideas and they generally have good recommendations.
Run a DHT crawler? It can be a bit resource intensive (I ran magnetico for a while) and it’ll take a while for it to index enough old stuff for the new discoveries to be actually new, but you’d get a fully decentralized continuous feed of newly discovered torrents that doesn’t depend on any centralized infrastructure, just the decentralized bittorrent DHT swarm.
To get a picture of what it looks like, you can check out btdig, it’s the same thing so if you click on “recent findings” at the bottom you’ll see what a recently found feed of DHT looks like.
Thanks that’s very interesting ! I wonder what else could happen on this dht network, is it possible to send messages, respond ? Create lists of magnet links and post them ?
Are you specifically interested in a distributed P2P social network? Maybe Scuttlebutt?
Thanks I’m checking this out, never heard of that before !
Just a word of warning, I don’t know how much it’s actually used today. I think it had some scaling issues in practice.
retrovibed has a prototype of the DHT crawler buitlin, along with a userspace vpn and media player if you’re looking for public content. echoing what others said it can be somewhat resource intensive. its alpha software, but if you’re interested in trying it out ping me.
This is how private torrent sites work, ime. Rotating featured torrents and forums for conversation.
That minus the private, minus all the baggage a “traditionnal centralized forum” would bring, and entirely swarm based, no ICANN domain name, no web servers, no dedicated VPS running the show. I’m specifically not talking of a “forum and tracker” combo.
