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Is there anything torrent-like, decentralized way of finding new stuff ? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Those still need some webserver running, at a specific place and a specific ICANN acredited registrar, subject to centralized control, shutdown, censorship, with it's shadowy, unaccountable invisible gatekeepers and traceable, definitive owners in ways that torrent swarms just aren't.

Is there nothing that puts everything in the swarm ? Posts that aren't in "one place". Distribution channels with no choke points.

The thing with a .torrent file is that it will never have anything new in it. Nobody is going to post a comment inside of it. It's not going to hold a discussion and point to you new or newer things like it.

I'm grasping at something that doesn't exist yet and doesn't have a mind, but I think it should it exist, it should already exist, somehow but it doesn't !?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    There was a peer 2 peer reddit clone I used 5 years ago. It was a standalone app for linux. I forgot what it was called. It was pretty dead back then though, less than one post per day.

    edit: i found it https://getaether.net/

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Let's say there is no master server. How do peers find each other?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You would need places dedicated to holding this info, similar to a torrent site.

    OP could be on to something. A landing page that directs one to a list of peers that contain lists of peers. The list of peers could be held many places. It obviously needs a hierarchial build to be able to grow, but without being on some kind of onion routing there is no anonymity.

    My biggest concerns:

    1. How do you convince thousands to host your content?
    2. How do you update your content?
    3. How do you lock your content down?
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