Have had to work on some other things lately, but returning to #sciop and wrote a blog post about current status and our plans for federation - it's about that time. Just need to do one more feature (commenting) and finish up some work for main job responsibilities, and it's off to implementing distributed activitypub where we decouple actors from instances
https://blog.sciop.net/2025-12-08/sfn-and-federation
Have had to work on some other things lately, but returning to #sciop and wrote a blog post about current status and our plans for federation - it's about that time. Just need to do one more feature (commenting) and finish up some work for main job responsibilities, and it's off to implementing distributed activitypub where we decouple actors from instances
https://blog.sciop.net/2025-12-08/sfn-and-federation
Here's another #FEP for representing torrents on activitypub :)
short, sweet, and with a reference implementation and tests!
towards a federated bittorrent tracker with #sciop !
PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/714
Discussion: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d8c8-bittorrent-torrent-objects/8309 (or this thread)
#FEP_d8c8 #BitTorrentOverActivityPub #FederatedP2P #BitTorrent
Here's another #FEP for representing torrents on activitypub :)
short, sweet, and with a reference implementation and tests!
towards a federated bittorrent tracker with #sciop !
PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/714
Discussion: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-d8c8-bittorrent-torrent-objects/8309 (or this thread)
#FEP_d8c8 #BitTorrentOverActivityPub #FederatedP2P #BitTorrent
Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?
edit (2025-09-21): this became https://sciop.net and its still going, in case anyone in this thread missed it
edit (2025-09-21 pt 2): do note the date on original post, nearly a year old, we have been rolling on sciop since February or so
I joined the #safeguardingresearch #sciop torrent swarm to keep datasets from USA science institutions easily available.
Setup a qbittorrent Docker https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-qbittorrent/
Added dataset feeds by threat level (I went with extinct, takedown_issued and endangered) https://sciop.net/feeds
Done
Peer to peer archives are real and they work, period. 216TiB of threatened cultural, climate, queer, and historical information held in common. That's a people powered archive, and you're welcome in it - to take from, to add to, and help sustain if you can.