Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally

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• infeeeee@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unlike well-moderated torrent sites, Bitmagnet adds almost any torrent it finds to its database. This includes mislabeled files, malware-ridden releases, and potentially illegal content. The software tries to limit abuse by filtering metadata for CSAM content, however.

  There are plans to add more curation by adding support for manual postings and federation. That would allow people with similar interests to connect, acting more like a trusted community. However, this is still work in progress.

  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 would work in a true P2P fashion.

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  • mgdigital@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The DHT is basically the wild west - EVERYTHING is on there, 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!

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  • deluxeparrot@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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• Norgur@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anything that ends the bullshit one has to put up with with private trackers is a boon

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• aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Looks good! Can it go with prowlarr?

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  • mgdigital@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, see bitmagnet.io/tutorials/servarr-integration.html

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• cried5774@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pointed sonarr at it works really good for recently released popular stuff

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• Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • mgdigital@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    4 months in my database takes up around 50GB; for the size of a few hi-res movies it’s worth it for me…

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    • summerof69@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is pretty slick for being in alpha.

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wasn’t aware the DHT contained file and torrent names

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• Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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

  Query successful, but no results in the configured categories were returned from your indexer. This may be an issue with the indexer or your indexer category settings

  which is a shame. Still a potentially powerful bit of kit regardless.

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• warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This will take over the internet by storm when they add 2 way integration with Prowlarr.

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• leanleft@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker

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