jonny (good kind) (@[email protected])
neuromatch.social
posting this so i can pin it: what up we're trying to make a federated bittorrent tracker, in the short term as an emergency information preservation vessel to avoid a fascist memoryhole, in the long term as a merger between the lessons of the federated and pirate web: - web: https://sciop.net/ - code: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop - in re: @[email protected] : https://safeguar.de/ - Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/ more details when i write them
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    Public torrents are already federated, no? You can publish a torrent with a single public tracker and when you check back two years later, the torrent is indexed by ~10+ public trackers.

    • tatterdemalion
      5·
      3 days ago

      Not exactly, not by the protocol anyway. It’s true that bittorrent supports DHT search with magnet links, so in that way, particular torrents are distributed and decentralized. But AFAIK the trackers indexers do not share any protocol other than the fact they are hosting torrent files and magnet URLs.

      • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 days ago

        Agreed, the trackers don’t have a protocol for automatically federating.

        But even beyond DHT, you can upload public torrents on new (for the torrent) trackers and they automatically get added to the swarm.

        The real issue with torrents is that there is no method for federating private trackers.

        • refalo
          1·
          2 days ago

          Can you name any private trackers that actually have a need for federation?

          The biggest issue I personally have with BT (v1) is not being able to search for a file by its checksum. I think v2 can do this, but almost nobody uses it in my experience.

          • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            2 days ago

            Something along the lines of being able to access seeders for dead torrents on your tracker from other trackers (with some sort of accounting for economy).

  • KissakiEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    let us resurrect the ancient art of Bittorrent

    haha

    • misk@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      3 days ago

      Hey, I have not touched torrents in like 10 years. I’m using Usenet which is even older but it’s just a joy when properly set up. I’d probably need a crash course on what’s what too :p