Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
(torrentfreak.com)
from mgdigital@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 17:33
https://lemmy.world/post/12115190
from mgdigital@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 17:33
https://lemmy.world/post/12115190
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This is pretty slick for being in alpha.
Looks good! Can it go with prowlarr?
Yes, see bitmagnet.io/tutorials/servarr-integration.html
I think it’s not ready for mainstream use yet, but seems absolutely promising. This will be the most important, how they will solve this without a central authority. Here in the Fediverse admins are basically this authority, I can’t imagine how it could work in a true P2P fashion.
The DHT is basically the wild west - EVERYTHING is on there (but that is also the power of it). Bitmagnet is attempting to overlay some order on it, make it more easily usable, and automatically filter the truly harmful content. Once the core features are more fleshed out, chapter 2 will hopefully look more like a fediverse with curation and moderation. There’s still lots to be done but it’s getting there!
Exactly. Torrents are popular because of the moderation and curation the indexers perform. It’s why it essentially won over purely distributed competitors.
It won’t take much to create some fake swarms that make this tool useless.
Anything that ends the bullshit one has to put up with with private trackers is a boon
I ran this for about a month when it was first linked on here. It’s pretty impressive. I did no performance tuning. Size of the install got a little worrying but i think there’s a lot of options to adjust this and i was not ready to put this on block storage yet.
I’ll probably give it another shot later down the road.
4 months in my database takes up around 50GB; for the size of a few hi-res movies it’s worth it for me…
How’s it better than Jackett that is scanning public trackers? Can you find something you wouldn’t find otherwise? I understand the problem Bitmagnet tries to solve, but to me the problem is rather hypothetical than real.
Yes, quite a lot of content that’s otherwise difficult to find on the public trackers. Also public trackers can be shut down.
Pointed sonarr at it works really good for recently released popular stuff
Wasn’t aware the DHT contained torrent names
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker
tor.stackexchange.com/…/how-can-bittorrent-traffi…
proxy setting for tracker over tor network
This will take over the internet by storm when they add 2 way integration with Prowlarr.
Finally got it set up, pointed Prowlarr at it which synced to Sonarr and Radarr, not readarr or lidarr though. I couldn’t manually point readarr at it either without getting a
which is a shame. Still a potentially powerful bit of kit regardless.