A federated bittorrent tracker
A federated bittorrent tracker
jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
A federated bittorrent tracker
jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
The DHT exists and is already a fully distributed system.
Even without the DHT, there is no centralization in Bittorrent that would lend itself to federation. Anyone with a complete copy of the data can already start their own tracker.
Do you perhaps mean a federated content index that links to torrents or magnet URIs?
@jonny@neuromatch.social I want to like this, but the repo and website do not convey this fundamental information about the project
The repository only has deployment notes.
The webpage has:
It doesn't mention "tracker" anywhere and only mentions "bittorrent" once.
Please consider people who:
Ask yourselves who the target audience is and maybe even state it on your webpage.
Lastly, it's probably too late to change the name and it's a matter of taste, but making it a homonym to PsyOp make me immediately think that this has a connection to anti-vaxxers, chemtrail believers, flat-earthers, illuminati freaks, and just conspiracy theorists in general.
Maybe I'm the only one thinking this, but as it currently exists, the project feels very much like the old-school C projects that assumed you were "in the know" before even arriving at the website or project. It does not make it inviting - at least not to me. It may be a completely false impression, but it is my impression nonetheless.
@yogthos
Yep we are working on docs
Sorry @jonny@neuromatch.social. I was being a hypocrite and an ass. I'll try and be more constructive with my feedback.
Good luck on the project! I hope that it will be a success!
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: @SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org : https://safeguar.de/
- Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/
Dunno about you all, but I think "the lessons of the federated and pirate web" sounds intriguing at least.