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Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 8 months ago by mgdigital to c/selfhosted
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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 could work in a true P2P fashion.

[–] mgdigital 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The DHT is basically the wild west - EVERYTHING is on there (but that is also the power of it). 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!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mgdigital 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mgdigital 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Can you find something you wouldn’t find otherwise?

Yes, quite a lot of content that's otherwise difficult to find on the public trackers. Also public trackers can be shut down.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Looks good! Can it go with prowlarr?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

This is pretty slick for being in alpha.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wasn't aware the DHT contained torrent names

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] warmaster 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opentracker

https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/64/how-can-bittorrent-traffic-be-anonymized-with-tor
proxy setting for tracker over tor network