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Feb 12, 2018 at 21:49
Fascinating: BitTorrent is now dwarfed by Netflix usage, and younger internet users have grown up with good legal options for content!
The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent
The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent
BitTorrent used to dominate not just piracy, but the internet. Now, it’s barely noticed in traffic studies. What happened to the platform?

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Feb 1, 2024 at 03:44
Do any package managers use bittorrent? I associate bittorrent with distributing large files, but it seems like it would really help scaling. Most traffic to package managers is from CI systems, which could instead run their own local seeding nodes.
Jan 1, 2015 at 23:29
Twitter:StatusNet, Facebook:Diaspora -- do decentralised services gain much traction today? The most recent success I can see is bittorrent.