Just had this idea pop up in my mind. Instead of relying on volunteers mirroring package repositories all around the world, why not utilise BitTorrent protocol to move at the very least some some load unto the users and thus increase download speeds as well as decrease latency?
That what Debian does with ISOs. However, no one uses it.
If anything IPFS might be good for packages as the IPFS program could he embedded into the package manager.
We do use it! I download several Linux ISOs from bittorrent every week!
I use bittorrent for isos and the files usually have hundreds of seeds. They are used.
Same for Armbian.
Source?
I use torrents/magnets for ISOs whenever i can.
Literally get isos faster from torrents than from the mirrors lol.