I have never heard of these so-called "friends" and remain on the lookout for an actual technological solution to this problem.

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.

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 ?

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 !?

Was going to suggest Jellyseerr as well. It works for movies and TV and not just in your library. It will suggest what's popular and recommendations. Also useful if a movie is part of a collection.

Thanks I'm checking this out, never heard of that before !

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.

I'd watch that, actually, fully automatic decentralized, swarm amplified video streams.