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

#sciop

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

#Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources wherever we can, run on a donated VPS. This is before we even get into federating archives and are still nailing down the basics of the site.

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.