• Strict3443@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What I mean is if I create a new torrent of Big Buck Bunny with a InfoHash of b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184 for example, no one will find my torrent by searching for “Big Buck Bunny”. Unless I post this hash somewhere, advertising “Hey, this torrent is Big Buck Bunny” like what 1337x and other torrent sites do, you won’t “find” it. Basically, we have to use a torrent indexer like tracker2.postman.i2p to search the metadata and find torrents we want. If that makes sense.

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      1 year ago

      I2P has its own DHT so all you need is an InfoHash to start downloading assuming there’s at least one reachable seeder. MuWire is an application that lets you search the DHT. The developer recently abandoned the project though… I haven’t tried it in some time but it probably still works.

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        1 year ago

        I’ll check out MuWire, was unaware that it used DHT.

        Also, I am just saying that tracker2.postman.i2p is the only torrent directory we have currently, and its best way to find and advertise torrents for others. Trackers (where your client announces to) are helpful to finding peers of the same torrent.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve seeded clearnet torrents to I2P peers many times with BiglyBT without those torrents having I2P trackers, so it’s definitely possible

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        1 year ago

        It would be nice to have qBittorrent auto add I2P trackers to all torrents to help cross-seed them.

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          1 year ago

          That would be nice yeah, maybe have a list of trackers in the options the user can control to add to torrents automatically