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Do people actually torrent from their phones? I mean sure it'd be cool for a nostr client to respond to magnet links/torrent files, but don't users want a separate app to manage the torrent session in that case? Personally I use a thin client to manage my torrents on a machine dedicated for that use and organize accordingly.

Automatically seeding torrents while opening a bunch of websocket connections to relays just seems...... wrong. Not looking to seed some stranger's cat pictures scrolling through my nostr feed

Or am I just too old to understand what people use? 🥹
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Hurvajs Rumcajs 2y ago

My reasoning (that might be wrong/outdated in many ways) was:

Why "we" use centralized media silos in nostr? Isn't there a years tested protocol that could help?

It wouldn't be reasonable from mobile users to seed. But the "silo operators" could be the big seeders, while others could help to seed some parts. And some would probably just run archives of old and important stuff.

It would be easy for any new entity to permissionlessly "mirror" the content and add to the data resilience.

The nostr client could just download/stream and display/play the file(s) the magnet link points at as if it was any other image/sound/video. Seeding would be optional, the nostr client would "ask" some big seeder/pool to seed it for you.

It might need some new bits to be added to torrent or between torrent and nostr. No idea, I'm not a coder unfortunatelly. So I was interested to hear some feedback from people who are.

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