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by nly 4645 days ago
BitTorrent was never designed with downloader privacy in mind (and not just because of the trackers, the DHT, PEX and the core protocol are all leaky as hell). Just because something is decentralised, it doesn't follow that privacy is somehow intrinsic.

Why do we have any reason to trust BitTorrent, Inc. over any other organisation? At best all these self-centered attempts are going to fragment the messaging market and make make even more unlikely we'll see an open, federated chat protocol reach popular use.