> Something that looks like a decentralized private tracker; by this I probably mean something that’s based partly on personal trust and manually weeding out any bad actors; I’d be wary of creating something that looks a bit like Tribler, which while an interesting project seems to have demonstrated that implementing trust, reputation and privacy at the protocol level carries too much overhead to be a compelling alternative to plain old BitTorrent, for all its imperfections
I've thought about this problem a lot. Having a federated / distributed tracker but with some form of trust based, or opt-in curation would be amazing.
The "Trust framework" that everybody is after: lightness of tit-for-tat with little overhead. With trust that actually can make The Internet a nice place again! Curation is indeed the problem discovered by HN practitioners such yourself. However, nobody in academia is working on this.
As one old scientific article is titled: "Curation, Curation, Curation"
I've thought about this problem a lot. Having a federated / distributed tracker but with some form of trust based, or opt-in curation would be amazing.