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  • Public torrents are already federated, no? You can publish a torrent with a single public tracker and when you check back two years later, the torrent is indexed by ~10+ public trackers.

    • Not exactly, not by the protocol anyway. It's true that bittorrent supports DHT search with magnet links, so in that way, particular torrents are distributed and decentralized. But AFAIK the trackers indexers do not share any protocol other than the fact they are hosting torrent files and magnet URLs.

      • Agreed, the trackers don't have a protocol for automatically federating.

        But even beyond DHT, you can upload public torrents on new (for the torrent) trackers and they automatically get added to the swarm.

        The real issue with torrents is that there is no method for federating private trackers.

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