Is there anything torrent-like, decentralized way of finding new stuff ? (lemmy.ml)

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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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[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Then you probably want Frost via Hyphanet. Or maybe IPFS.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Frost via Hyphanet

I had never heard of this, reading the page I thought this sounds like freenet, something I have not tried since ... over 20 years.
After some reading turns out hyphanet is the old freenet , interesting !

As for IPFS, I never managed to find a single thing to download. Content discovery and communication is a problem there.