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by immibis 299 days ago
Browsers can't make torrent connections, or any others for that matter. Except for HTTP and WebRTC.

WebTorrent is a hack to run torrent protocol over WebRTC, but obviously it only connects to other WebTorrent programs and not to normal torrent programs. I think PeerTube uses it.

2 comments

It could be a desktop app :shrug:
there are several hybrid desktop clients that do support WebTorrent peers