Ask HN: Discussion board implemented on BitTorrent?
With the chaos on Reddit and the discussion of how discussion communities have a limited lifespan, I was wondering if anyone has tried implementing a distributed discussion board on top of bittorrent? Imagine if a channel's discussion were stored in files with some naming/numbering scheme, and to participate you used bittorrent to download/seed the files. There would be specialized trackers to help you find channels to subscribe to, but the archives would be stored by the channel community. It seems a lot like Usenet but even more decentralized.
Or perhaps instead of bittorrent the implementation would be more like a blockchain, so people can post comments? I'm not an expert in either tech, but it seems like either one might be workable for something like this.
It's a bit hard to google for, so I'm curious if anyone knows of something like this.
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