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: @SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org : https://safeguar.de/
- Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/
more details when i write them
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?
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?