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A federated bittorrent tracker
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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Agreed, the trackers don't have a protocol for automatically federating.
But even beyond DHT, you can upload public torrents on new (for the torrent) trackers and they automatically get added to the swarm.
The real issue with torrents is that there is no method for federating private trackers.
Can you name any private trackers that actually have a need for federation?
The biggest issue I personally have with BT (v1) is not being able to search for a file by its checksum. I think v2 can do this, but almost nobody uses it in my experience.
Something along the lines of being able to access seeders for dead torrents on your tracker from other trackers (with some sort of accounting for economy).