We could build the next piratebay/rarbg entirely on nostr and no one could take it down...🤯

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Yes but the way forward is zaps

As an avid torrenter this is something I'd be interested in.

Interesting, how do you envision that looking?

All you need is a chat channel people can follow that posts magnet links.

Chat is too closed, that could work for private trackers but I would prefer open listings with comments.

Too closed? The chat that's actually just public posts, with a "this belongs in this chat" tag.

Oh sorry didn't know you meant public chat.

I would still prefer a listings browsable interface.

Simply proposing a new event kind for sharing bittorrent magnetic links with some extra metadata (title, description, media info, size) and building a webclient that can visualize there torrent listings just like in tpb/rarbg.

You can even reply to these events with regular kind=1 notes that would work as comments to the torrent listing and people can zap the listing as part of supporting the original torrent creator.

Yes, I've seen you have already proposed something very similar in another comment, although much better explained 😊:

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It would need a very robust searching tool.

Nice!!

I'm envisioning a nostr bot that crawls the torrent DHT and that you can DM with a search query, and it sends magnet links to the torrent

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That’s a neat idea. One issue is that everyone would know that you’ve communicated with the bot, because DM metadata is not private.

You can always use a throaway anon account.

To make DMs "less persistent", the bot could use ephemeral messages. It could still encrypt them DM-style, but ephemeral = not persisted by relays.

I assume you are referring to building trackers on top of nostr, or file transfers itself?

BitTorrent has already proven to be incredibly resilient

Just sharing magnetic links

Yeah I think that is a great idea

Some (new) kind of content-note adding some metadata to the magnet link would be nice (type, title, author, external links, ...)

- Some webs/apps could be created to put together all those content-note, allowing users to search and to react to them.

- People could validate the quality of the content, react to it (like, zaps, comment).

- A community of users could form around this.

- TBD (to be discovered...)

Exactly

This note inspired me

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