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Was asking the same question when reading about the Odyssey and lbry inc stuff.

In short it seems like decentralized indexer, Peertube seems to be able to use it for searching content.

Longer answer is that classic indexers join content metadata (file name, …) with the BitTorrent hash, this does the same thing but instead of being a single website this metadata+bt hash is stored in the distributed blockchain (so no singular entity hold this information, censor resistance etc).

My answer is that it’s glorified DHT with metadata search.

I found this when searching for some more technical stuff - spec.lbry.com.

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norgur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
thanks for your detailed answer :) So it’s really just another “Solution in search of a problem” kind of deal, since the whole concept “decentralises” a conecpt that is already decentralised (BitTorrent) but with a little Cryptocurrency because of course it has Crypto.

Now I just need to find out what Piped does with it, since all it’s content is supposed to be on YouTube, right? So searching for content can’t be it’s purpose… I think.

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- taaz@biglemmowski.win ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Solution in search of a problem
  
  In this case, it can be considered as a solution to actual problem - trackers/indexers going down, or actually a deeper problem of BitTorrent, where you need the centralized trackers/indexers to find the torrent of the content you are looking for (you can’t just open qbittorrent and search for Arch Linux ISO).
  But the execution of this solution is up for debate definitely.
  
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