no mouse, no keyboard, no user

that's not the only feature of v2. it also hels a lot with swarm merging (which with v1 only biglybt implemented), and it has updatable torrents. it also stores torrent information more efficiently and the incoming pidces can be verified immediately. afaik today torrent clients don't verify downloaded torrents by default. qbittorent has an option, default off, to verify after a torrent completed. this is slow because everything needs to be read again from disk. I'm not totally sure about this, but I think a malicious peer could be sending crafted pieces that contain something else and you wouldn't know it.

https://torrentfreak.com/libtorrent-adds-support-for-bittorrent-v2-a-potential-game-changer-200912/

I can imagine this is what is needed to grab the attention of the instagram generation.

is it enough for the tiktok generation, though? the picture is not moving

I think you have forgot to link an article

I2P is not an alternative to bittorrent, but to IP networks. Essentially I2P is an overlay over the IP-based Internet.

bittorrent can work through I2P just like it can over IP or Tor.

legal streams already do

thanks Microsoft for hiding extensions by default!

I think a big part of the problem is that they didn't show anyone a notification or an onboarding dialog or whatever about this feature, when it got introduced.

Firefox is still the superior browser in my opinion.

or the least bad, as I have been thinking about it lately

I don't think a fork will solve anything. I'm pretty sure the reason they did this is to cover their asses (don't forget that it was very near to being taken down just a few years ago).

Further, yt-dlp has implemented plugin support, for this exact reason. I think that's a new feature compared to youtube-dl. You can add your own extractors as plugins, wherever you find them. As I remember there are a few plugins that are even maintained by a yt-dlp maintainer.

If you find this to be ok or better, please consider changing the title to let those know about what's happening who have already read the post, because they wouldn't know it otherwise.

Secret chats only. With their own, in-house encryption, that, if I remember correctly, the apps don't use according to the specifications.

Maybe I'm mixing up mtproto 1 and 2 with that second part, though.

Yes, it is not as decentralised as you have thought. I thought this is a fairly known fact. If you need something truly decentralized, I2P is probably the way.

To your.. friends? You mean your workplace team? It could be really bad if your only friends are your workplace team