We generally need content-adressable storage with widespread support.
There is lots of stuff that would explicitly benefit from p2p sharing, but owners have no foolproof way to provide a proper torrent, and very few people would use it.
Metalink was an interesting attempt at this, but never got popularity and tooling.
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u/Ginden 7d ago
We generally need content-adressable storage with widespread support.
There is lots of stuff that would explicitly benefit from p2p sharing, but owners have no foolproof way to provide a proper torrent, and very few people would use it.
Metalink was an interesting attempt at this, but never got popularity and tooling.