How does one find large DHTs? Is there anything connecting them all?
"Mainline DHT" is the primary one. It backs magnet links and has resisted censorship for over a decade. Largest most robust group of cooperating computers there is.
You can reliably use it to store arbitrary key-value pairs up to 1kb in in size.
Good question. The 4 initial bootstrap nodes that I provided (in the README) are all connected to each other. If everyone connects to all of them, we are all basically on the same network instead of on "isolated islands"