blossom is definitely a better way to do it, it's simple to add naive propagation mechanisms like forwarding queries to other blossom servers that are storing the same type of data, and then caching them

actually, after i get done with making an actually stable relay i need to write a blossom server 

 why not just use a p2p platform? clients can then load files via multiple servers at once, can use index and dht lookups, anyone can add servers 

 DHT does not scale well 

 scales fine just depends how you use it 
'the concurrent number of users of Mainline DHT is from 16 million to 28 million' https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_DHT 

 SHA1 haha lol, man this tech is so old... i mean, it works but SHA1 is broken 

 also still used for git commit hashes... they really should do something about that 

 https://git-scm.com/docs/hash-function-transition 

 bittorrent is sha256 now 

 i would hope so! 

 but git is still SHA1 

 not really, there's a transition plan in place, and places like gitlab accept it already https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/08/28/sha256-support-in-gitaly/ 

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