jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
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: @SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org : https://safeguar.de/ - Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/ more details when i write them
  • drspod@lemmy.ml
    9·
    2 days ago

    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?

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    191·
    2 days ago

    @jonny@neuromatch.social I want to like this, but the repo and website do not convey this fundamental information about the project

    • what it is
    • what is does
    • why it does it
    • how it does it

    The repository only has deployment notes.

    The webpage has:

    • The name
    • A quote
    • What SciOp belongs to
    • A call to action addressed at… somebody
    • Some random stats

    It doesn’t mention “tracker” anywhere and only mentions “bittorrent” once.

    Please consider people who:

    • know nothing about the project
    • don’t care about who you are
    • have under 5 minutes (most likely 1 minute) to be intrigued
    • are not necessarily technically inclined

    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.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
    5·
    2 days ago

    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:

    Dunno about you all, but I think “the lessons of the federated and pirate web” sounds intriguing at least.