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

Comment µTorrent est devenu détesté - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hbkgy19Yrg

> Il fut un temps où µTorrent dominait le monde... que s'est-il passé?

#torrent #utorrent #bittorrent #vulgarisation

Progress from SciOp on distributing large scientific datasets via #bittorrent and preservation via Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. This feature allows uploads and torrent modifications via a web interface, so you can participate even if your institution blocks BitTorrent. #OpenData via @jonny

https://blog.sciop.net/2025-08-29/webseeds

Progress from SciOp on distributing large scientific datasets via #bittorrent and preservation via Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. This feature allows uploads and torrent modifications via a web interface, so you can participate even if your institution blocks BitTorrent. #OpenData via @jonny

https://blog.sciop.net/2025-08-29/webseeds

Does anyone know the social history of libtorrent? it now appears only sparsely maintained and still almost exclusively by arvid, really huge bugs go unresponded to, and i'm finding tons of offers to help with stuff also getting just ignored? like how did this whole protocol get built on top of this one library maintained by this one person - asking for any specifics, rather than "that just always happens"

#bittorrent #libtorrent

Mastodon Isn’t Complying With Age Verification Because It Can’t

While other services are bending at the knee over age verification, Mastodon has no actual means to comply.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mastodon-isnt-complying-with-age-verification-because-it-cant/

#Censorship#FileSharing#News#Technology#ActivityPub#AgeVerification#BitTorrent#eDonkey2000#FreeSpeech #government#Mastodon#SocialMedia

Mastodon Isn’t Complying With Age Verification Because It Can’t

While other services are bending at the knee over age verification, Mastodon has no actual means to comply.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mastodon-isnt-complying-with-age-verification-because-it-cant/

#Censorship#FileSharing#News#Technology#ActivityPub#AgeVerification#BitTorrent#eDonkey2000#FreeSpeech #government#Mastodon#SocialMedia

Ok, so I'm trying to make a torrent for #Tenacity and seed it. I figure I could create the torrent on one computer, transfer it to my file server via #BitTorrent (where it'll seed there), and then distribute the torrent and magnet link.

The transfer works fine because my file server and computer are on the same networks. However, when I test with my phone or another computer on a different network, it doesn't work. My file server is behind a firewall, but ports 6881-6889 are both open on both my router and firewall on the server.

What am I doing wrong? Is this too complicated?

Have a disused laptop or Raspi? Make it part of the swarm and take the data outside the US (or any) administration's grasp!

#scienceunderattack #bittorrent #decentralizedbackup #libraryofcongress