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When you initially start a torrent, you define what "100%" is - all of the files. When you update a torrent, you need all of the updates. The beauty of a federated network is that the network can persist without all of it being available.
I run my own instance. If every other server on the planet crapped out overnight, my instance would still be operable (with whatever content from the federation that I've consumed).
The Fediverse is currently decentralized not distributed, and it should most definitely stay that way, for the sake of my disk space.
Torrents are both decentralised and distributed.
When you start a torrent, you don't define a 100%, you define only your torrent and nothing else.
To follow your example, if you run your own torrent instance and the network goes down, then of all torrents out there you will have whatever your instance managed to download. It works the exact same way in this regard.
The main issue with decentralised P2P systems is that they're very slow when user count is low.