I'm willing to put up a domain. I think this would be a good idea. Private invites from Lemmy. What I don't have is the technical knowledge to do this, since trackers are really intensive to make. I guess what I'm asking is if there is enough interest here to make our own private tracker. It will be very intensive on the dev end, but maybe we can do something for real here.
I'm not going to exaggerate here - we'd need the full power of the hundreds of devs on Lemmy to do this. It won't be easy, but I believe it is possible. I also believe that it is worth it. Between us all, we may have just about every Linux Distro available. The hosting will be a problem for sure, but maybe we can sort that out.
If anyone is interested in doing this, we can make a github repo, or whatever is necessary.
Again, I think this is worth pursuing. We could potentially make a decentralized private tracker.
Gonna be real, I doubt there are hundreds of people on lemmy that would even join a random "lemmy specific tracker", let alone hundreds of devs that have the necessary skills and are willing to put in tons of work for free. Sounds doomed to fail.
BaconBits was a Reddit tracker with a maximum user count around 6000. They eventually closed because most of the users could get the same content from other trackers, with better choices about bitrate or codec, or better seeding. I’m not convinced Lemmy has enough users to support a private tracker, I think you need like 20k active users to be worthwhile.
and over public DHT. we can share magnet links in this community, and why keep it to us only? if we keep it public, the survivability of torrents can even improve
Small private trackers usually share some sphere of interests, like music, hd tv, sports, books, manga, etc, so the volume of content is comparatively small and other people on the platform are semi-interested in seeding uploads they don't use themselves and inspecting if they are alright. We don't have numbers for a general-use tracker just yet. And also - most instances would be very cautious of federating contents promoting direct links to any sort of piracy.
i love the idea, but p2p filesharing laws are quite strict where i live. i wouldn't feel 100% safe even using a private tracker, i'll have to stick to debrid services to cover my ass
I mean, yeah. That isn't necessarily the point here, though. There's a lot of frustration surrounding the need for private trackers and we could maybe solve that here.