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.
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.
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
You could use Torbox.app. Its like debrid, but also seeds so you can use it for private trackers.
I've got the entire collection of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, along with every programme Fred Dibnah ever did
You're welcome to them to get you started as long as the site wallpaper is fine bone china with hand painted periwinkles
It's a nice gesture but I'm a bit doubtful that there's enough people here to sustain a private tracker. Taking a guess at this but it seems most people here in c/piracy are general users, not specifically private tracker users - in fact a fair amount don't even like the idea of private trackers.
!trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com exists but it's pretty quiet by comparison.
Not saying it's a bad idea but it could be a while before a niche tracker like that would gain enough traction to sustain itself. And I'm just talking about a regular private tracker, not even going to touch on the idea of someone developing a "decentralized private tracker" whatever that means.. TBH if you want decentralized just stick to public torrents with DHT/PEX, that's already decentralized. Or maybe make a semi-private tracker like Demonoid if that's more along the lines of what you want.
I'm not opposed to a lemmy-based tracker but will admit I've never made one before.
I have extensive dev experience and would be willing to learn.
My constraints would be time honestly.
