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by Lammy 55 days ago
Why are you thinking in terms of “sites”? I was imagining something more like a GitTorrent.
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> something more like a GitTorrent

Still dependent on centralized trackers. Same story with every useful package manager, there's always a middleman.

BitTorrent has supported trackerless torrents for twenty entire years :p https://github.com/sparkslabs/kamaelia/blob/master/Sketches/...
Torrent doesn't magically find peers, even with DHT the torrent files have seed nodes baked in. A middelman required for both the centralized trackers and trackerless torrents.
DHT seed nodes are optional. A torrent node that's already connected to the DHT doesn't need them. Most torrent software has some default nodes baked in, from which it can discover the whole DHT.