I’m willing to put up a domain. I think this would be a good idea. Private invites from Lemmy. What I don’t have is the technical knowledge to do this, since trackers are really intensive to make. I guess what I’m asking is if there is enough interest here to make our own private tracker. It will be very intensive on the dev end, but maybe we can do something for real here.
I’m not going to exaggerate here - we’d need the full power of the hundreds of devs on Lemmy to do this. It won’t be easy, but I believe it is possible. I also believe that it is worth it. Between us all, we may have just about every Linux Distro available. The hosting will be a problem for sure, but maybe we can sort that out.
If anyone is interested in doing this, we can make a github repo, or whatever is necessary.
Again, I think this is worth pursuing. We could potentially make a decentralized private tracker.
- antlion ( @antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•43 minutes ago
BaconBits was a Reddit tracker with a maximum user count around 6000. They eventually closed because most of the users could get the same content from other trackers, with better choices about bitrate or codec, or better seeding. I’m not convinced Lemmy has enough users to support a private tracker, I think you need like 20k active users to be worthwhile.
- Damage ( @Damage@feddit.it ) English14•6 hours ago
I don’t understand what would be the advantages over other trackers
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English7•4 hours ago
and over public DHT. we can share magnet links in this community, and why keep it to us only? if we keep it public, the survivability of torrents can even improve
- CosmicTurtle0 ( @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•5 hours ago
I’m not opposed to a lemmy-based tracker but will admit I’ve never made one before.
I have extensive dev experience and would be willing to learn.
My constraints would be time honestly.
- Lemmchen ( @Lemmchen@feddit.org ) English7•6 hours ago
Why do you think we need devs for this? Setting up a bittorrent tracker doesn’t involve any dev work.
- tenchiken ( @tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•4 hours ago
He is referring to turning Lemmy code itself into a decentralized tracker software.
A torrent post to Lemmy that your client would download Meta data from etc.
- Mr_Blott ( @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk ) English4•5 hours ago
I’ve got the entire collection of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, along with every programme Fred Dibnah ever did
You’re welcome to them to get you started as long as the site wallpaper is fine bone china with hand painted periwinkles
- ben_dover ( @ben_dover@lemmy.ml ) English12•8 hours ago
i love the idea, but p2p filesharing laws are quite strict where i live. i wouldn’t feel 100% safe even using a private tracker, i’ll have to stick to debrid services to cover my ass
maybe we make a usenet group as well?