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.
It sounds like you’re describing federated software like Lemmy, and tracker RSS feeds.
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 !?
Let’s say there is no master server. How do peers find each other?
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.
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.
Jellyseer will kinda do that. But only for tv/movies in your jellyfin library.
Decentralized TV?
I’d watch that, actually, fully automatic decentralized, swarm amplified video streams.
Reminds me of pirate radio or whatever that type of thing was called in english. It would be really nice tbh
That is a cool analogy, what is the pirate radio in piracy ? Yes ! Earlier I was listening to ham radio operators and they were talking about pirate radios, some of the crotchety ones were saying to call the cops but most were like “we like listening to the pirates”
