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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.
It works in theory not practice, trackers are still a thing all these years later because DHT is slow and unreliable.
It does work in practice. Almost everything I download is via magnet links without tracker.
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.
I have used bittorrent to share files with friends. Manually created torrent. No trackers. Works. What client are you using?
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
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).
Anecdotal working tests doesn't make it performant or reliable, that's literally the meme
A torrent without a tracker will often just stall and never start pulling chunks, this is why trackers are still used 20+ years after torrents introduced DHT... to the extent they are used is largely as a backup to trackers which themselves can go down or be overloaded... it's not reliable enough to be the primary source unless the torrent has a large swarm.
If a torrent has a webseed, DHT probably would be adequate, but that's effectively replacing the tracker by having static peers to serve the first chunks directly
Distributed* hash trash
Makes it sound cooler
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
yeah but why? too complicated! jsut announce the IP over nostr and sleep well :)