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What do you guys think of P2P torrent search engines, such as tribler? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I think we are playing a very long hide and seek game with torrent being so reliant on trackers and web indexers/communities, they close some, others pop up, and the users are dispersed, and younger generations never learn how to pirate. In the long run we are losing.

I think we really need a fully peer-to-peer search mechanism, integrated to torrent client, and despite the difficulties, I think it is possible to have something that is permissionless, yet safe, based on a distributed, Sybil resistant, reputation system.

I think tribler search feature is a good start, but its tor-like privacy features makes it too slow, preventing its widespread adoption (and given the search is basically trusting the peers, it would be overwhelmed with garbage if it became mainstream).

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Bittorrent isn't reliant on trackers any more though. The dht network was the solution to that.

You can install your own dht indexer (bitmagnet for example) the only thing missing is reputation etc.

[–] ovovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It is still reliant on an index, but in this case, you are building your own instead of using something public/online.

It is good for power users like you and me who have the storage to spare, but it doesn't scale, mainly for the reason that if everybody was doing it, the DHT would become a target and would be poisoned with malware, spam and fake content.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 6 hours ago

Well I was thinking in terms of being like the pirate bay. People could host these, if they get blocked, many more where they come from.

Yeah for sure to be unstoppable you want to host it yourself.