Is there anything torrent-like, decentralized way of finding new stuff ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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 ?

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[-] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

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 ?