Has anyone set up file-sharing, especially torrents or something similar, over freenet? It reminds me of reticulum in that it's supposedly decentralized, but it looks more technically developed (i.e. not written in python).

My understanding of torrents is that they go to tracker locations, which I don't really understand but seems like a centralized node of some sort. So, I assume torrents themselves can't be ran through freenet, but is there something analogous we should be looking at?

I apologize if this is a dumb question I don’t have much knowledge in this area. I just want to make sure I'm staying on top of the relevant technologies.

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[–] 14 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

Public torrents don't require trackers. Bittorrent can use DHT to operate completely decentralized.

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