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yeah but why? too complicated! jsut announce the IP over nostr and sleep well :)

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DHT is genious way to make truly decentralized, infinitely scalable and most importantly, extremely efficient index. Very rarely someone finds genious solutions like this.

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It works in theory not practice, trackers are still a thing all these years later because DHT is slow and unreliable.

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It does work in practice. Almost everything I download is via magnet links without tracker.

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Magnet links usually have a tracker embedded (because DHT blows ass)

Unless you're stripping those out or disabling trackers in your client I assure you that you're using trackers and not DHT most if not all of the time.

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I have used bittorrent to share files with friends. Manually created torrent. No trackers. Works. What client are you using?

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Over the years pretty much all of them, ktorrent master race though

It's not just a me thing, trackers are still used by the ecosystem exactly because the T in DHT stands for trash

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What kind of troubles have you had with DHT? I just tested it with a completely new torrent and a magnet link (and yes, no trackers) and my friend downloaded it successfully. Single seeder on the planet (me) found by a single leacher on the planet (my friend).

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HashTrash haha

DHT is always slower than a tracker, and it's always less reliable too, until the tracker goes away, then DHT is more reliable.

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Sounds good, feel free to add it under a flag if you want it. This is the nice thing of open source

I have nothing wrong with your point of view

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