webtorrent VS exatorrent

It's because of the kind of content that is shared. BitTorrent serves a lot of content you are not allowed to redistribute, so having an open gateway immediately puts you at risk of aiding the distribution of content. But it does work, someone even made something native to browsers so browsers themselves can share content: https://webtorrent.io/. There are even fuse "gateways" to make it native to your computer and pretend the files exist locally: https://github.com/search?q=bittorrent+fuse&type=repositorie...

IPFS doesn't seem to be used for that kind of content much, it seems to be targeted more towards web-native content (html pages, images, that kind of stuff). It's probably safer for Cloudflare to run this.

Then https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent could be used to actually download the videos in browser, the idea being here though, that you would at least seed out as much as you got. Enabling other's to access videos without requiring creators have the infrastructure to push a video to 1000s or more clients at once.

Peertube can opportunistically use WebTorrent to ease the load on the server & have clients watching a video share the parts between themselves.

I stopped torrenting some time ago, but what are people's experience with webtorrent?

https://webtorrent.io/

I'd just as soon avoid running additional software if possible.

webtorrent-mpv-hook: enables mpv to stream torrents using webtorrent.

acompressor.lua: compressor. blur-edges.lua: fills the black bars on the side of a video with a blurred copy of its edges. createchapter.lua: self-explanatory. crop.lua: crop video in a visual manner. encode.lua: make an extract of the video currently playing using ffmpeg. reload.lua: reloads videos if an online video stops caching. seek-to.lua: go to timestamp. simplehistory.lua: stores whatever you open in a history file. skiptosilence.lua: skip past "previously on...". smartcopypaste_ii.lua: copy/paste links sponsorblock.lua: skip sponsors in yt videos. streamsave.lua: save looped section to a separate file. subit.lua: download subtitles to playing video. uosc.lua: feature-rich minimalist proximity-based ui (my fav!). webm.lua: similar to encode.lua but with more features and no external dependencies. webtorrent-mpv-hook: enable mpv to stream torrents using webtorrent. youtube-quality.lua: change quality of currently playing yt video.

you completely off-base here, check this: https://webtorrent.io

exatorrent is a mobile-first torrent client I've been using recently

Exatorrent

new things like exatorrent, i'd love to see people posting their new setups and the speeds they're getting.

It's worth noting that binary-only containers are a thing with statically linked programs like what you get with Go. If you look at the Dockerfile you'll see that this is actually what is happening: there's a two stage build, with the build container including everything needed to compile, and then the final container is based on a minimal (empty) image. The resulting image does have a little overhead over having just the binary, but that overhead is almost zero.

You have some broken links in your config readme.