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Derek Ross | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 People have been discussing using BitTorrent for a year and a half but it never went anywhere. Why?
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semisol | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 doesn’t get grant money
NIH syndrome
and somehow nostr devs miss obvious solutions
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AVERAGE_GARY | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Is there a repo for it?
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semisol | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 huh
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AVERAGE_GARY | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nvm. I'll go look it up.
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Alex Gleason 🐍 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How would that work, you would need to seed your avatar? I think that would be very slow and create even more instability.
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semisol | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 HTTP sources exist
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semisol | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Also the slowest part is actually discovering peers. You could publish your own as a list (like relay list) and have other peers be a fallback
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Alex Gleason 🐍 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I have downloaded things from torrents many times but still don't really understand how they work years later despite trying. 

So I would say don't attribute to malice what can be explained by me being retarded.
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semisol | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 https://webtorrent.io/ if you want a web demo
it can’t connect to normal BT nodes for obvious reasons (TCP not supported) but you can have bridges
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Alex Gleason 🐍 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 PeerTube uses this
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franzap | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 You're trying to reason with a troll
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Custom Designed | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Retroshare is a decentalized social media built on BitTorrent:
https://github.com/RetroShare/RetroShare