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 ?

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's say there is no master server. How do peers find each other?

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

You would need places dedicated to holding this info, similar to a torrent site.

OP could be on to something. A landing page that directs one to a list of peers that contain lists of peers. The list of peers could be held many places. It obviously needs a hierarchial build to be able to grow, but without being on some kind of onion routing there is no anonymity.

My biggest concerns:

How do you convince thousands to host your content?
How do you update your content?
How do you lock your content down?