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  • It sucks for FOSS projects, but you have to imagine their rules from the perspective of someone who is actively trying to bend the rules to avoid giving Valve their cut. If they make an exception for FOSS projects, then every indie developer will claim to be “Shareware” and solicit donations off-platform.

    Even Epic Games tried this and ended up in a lawsuit with Apple.





  • The DHT exists and is already a fully distributed system.

    Even without the DHT, there is no centralization in Bittorrent that would lend itself to federation. Anyone with a complete copy of the data can already start their own tracker.

    Do you perhaps mean a federated content index that links to torrents or magnet URIs?