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Cool! Once you have federated comments why wouldn't you just distribute a popularity index and torrent magnet links via the same mechanism?

Once you get all that stuff functional you end up with a truly decentralized platform and there's no reason for anyone to "host" their own cordoned-off copy in the first place. It actually /solves/ the problem.

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This sounds almost exactly like eDonkey, which is what we used before BitTorrent. eDonkey used to be much better for rare items, though BitTorrent worked better for popular items. eDonkey used to let you start searches that would run for days, asking neighbour nodes to ask other neighbour nodes, etc.

I miss it and I think there's a lot that can be learned from it.

Exactly, federated Pirate Bay solves many problems.

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