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HANG ON we hit THREE THOUSAND pdses this week?? 3k pdses in the atmosphere!

fig (aka:[phil])

@bad-example.com

5 Aug

(like, 3k online at the same time! across a 24h sample!)

fry69

@fry69.dev

Great achievement! Still, in the grand picture, this is not even a tiny BitTorrent swarm. But the network growing, that is the important part.

5/8/26, 9:18 pm0 reposts1 like

Banda Bassotti

@orpach.neocities.org

5 Aug

I would guess 90%+ of active torrents have fewer peers than that. (now I'm curious what the median swarm size excluding 0 is) That's also 1-1. A pds can have a ton of users on it.

jonny (leachate composite form)

@jo.nny.rip

6 Aug

Not really apples to apples but just for having a number, the number of independent peers in the bittorrent dht is something like 20-30million (3k PDSes is great tho! Not trying to diminish that) torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-...

torrentfreak.comBitTorrent's DHT and the Leading ISP Networks Helping to Keep it Alive * TorrentFreakBased on the volume of IP addresses seen in the network, customers of relatively few ISPs dominate BitTorrent's Distributed Hash Table.