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Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally (torrentfreak.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Unlike well-moderated torrent sites, Bitmagnet adds almost any torrent it finds to its database. This includes mislabeled files, malware-ridden releases, and potentially illegal content. The software tries to limit abuse by filtering metadata for CSAM content, however.

There are plans to add more curation by adding support for manual postings and federation. That would allow people with similar interests to connect, acting more like a trusted community. However, this is still work in progress.

I think it's not ready for mainstream use yet, but seems absolutely promising. This will be the most important, how they will solve this without a central authority. Here in the Fediverse admins are basically this authority, I can't imagine how it could work in a true P2P fashion.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The DHT is basically the wild west - EVERYTHING is on there (but that is also the power of it). Bitmagnet is attempting to overlay some order on it, make it more easily usable, and automatically filter the truly harmful content. Once the core features are more fleshed out, chapter 2 will hopefully look more like a fediverse with curation and moderation. There's still lots to be done but it's getting there!

[–] deluxeparrot 11 points 8 months ago

Exactly. Torrents are popular because of the moderation and curation the indexers perform. It's why it essentially won over purely distributed competitors.

It won't take much to create some fake swarms that make this tool useless.