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Re:Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler,... by thomastjeffery on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:42AM (#37780060)
Gatekeeping is just a bad moderation method in the first place.

What you need is sorting and categorization. If you really want to involve authoritative opinions on metadata, then use a web of trust.

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Re:Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler,... by NegativeK on Thursday October 05, 2023 @04:37PM (#37783971)
I've yet to see a moderation method that works better than gatekeeping.
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