The difference with torrent trackers is their index is public and can be mirrored.
Torrent sites like 1337x were born out of previously popular indexes (Kickass Torrents, h33t). [0]
It's not dissimilar to when a GitHub fork becomes more popular than the original project. [1]
To me, the biggest disappointment with web3 is they never cracked "distributed discoverability." It still relied on the old model, of proprietary indexes/marketplaces.
I'm way more inspired by the P2P efforts, especially Gnutella's initial attempts at distributed search. [2] Feels like this tech could still be iterated on and improved.
Torrent sites like 1337x were born out of previously popular indexes (Kickass Torrents, h33t). [0]
It's not dissimilar to when a GitHub fork becomes more popular than the original project. [1]
To me, the biggest disappointment with web3 is they never cracked "distributed discoverability." It still relied on the old model, of proprietary indexes/marketplaces.
I'm way more inspired by the P2P efforts, especially Gnutella's initial attempts at distributed search. [2] Feels like this tech could still be iterated on and improved.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1337x
1: http://gitpop2.herokuapp.com/tobi/delayed_job
2: http://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/developer/share/intro.ht...