What do you mean by this? Torrent never went away, there are countless high quality private trackers and even some really good public ones

But considering piracy + fediverse then DC++ was the most fediverse-y one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%2B%2B You could connect to any given X server where you could share your local drive + chat with other users too. It's still really good to find some extremely niche stuff but torrent basically "won" because of the hash based seeding system (as in multiple user can share and peer the same stuff). DC was just seeing others' HDD and find whatever you can and directly download from there. But you didn't know that Joe's "Movie2012x264.mp4" and Jim's "Movie2012.mkv" are the same thing or different.

The reason that approach ultimately lost was because it was federated and therefore Balkanized more or less. However, it was probably a better UX in many ways than putting everyone together in 1 room.

But it was limited and cells would divide and divide further with no great way of interacting on common grounds topics.

Maybe this is the way forward but I doubt it. I think we’ll see better approaches at centralization because that’s where the money is. We just need a way to digitize the norms you’d see from the same peoples interactions at a bar, church, DMV, sports venue, work, with friends, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...