http://sn.1w6.org/file/beardyunixer-20170521T020608-74kcx87.html

How would the #fediverse feel about having #magnet search available in the directories?

The federated social directory is still in a developer preview state, but it occurred to me that there's no reason we can't plug into Mario's work on shared files in Hubzilla and start magnet indexing things. Right now, this is only possible for Hubzilla (not even RedMatrix), but since Mario has already done it, it's not a hard problem anymore, it's already been solved - other's just need to implement it.

Once they have, providing magnet URIs isn't brain surgery, and we get sync for free.

Last night, I thought this was a great idea, but I woke up this morning and saw an article about ExtraTorrent being closed down, and though oh...yeah.

So what do you think?